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January 1, 2011
on not knowing by ~twelvedaysofjune is a simple, fitting thought to start off the New Year. None of us know what is waiting over the course of the year to come, but still, we have to travel as we are, even if that is barefoot. We still have to get to the end of the year, and we will.
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The Synesthete
Red is red.
Firetruck red. P
is purple.
Purple is purple.
Yellow is lemon yellow
& deep blue & plums.
Green is brown.
It's complicated.
Rape is red, & then bruised,
pulsating purple.
Rape feels like a rape. Quandary
tastes like guacamole,
not for any reason,
but she really likes guacamole.
A buzzing in her room burns
in her hand. Like a metal object
taken out of a microwave.
She can't sleep
in her room. No one else
can hear the sound. No one else
is able to feel
the sound she feels.
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ugly consumption
monday my little girl asked, "what would happen if someone ate
the sun and
how many calories does it have?"
and i wish i could see myself objectively, wish
my skin wasn't worn from
fitful starvation.
have you ever seen your
hands as i do, strange bloated things
in search of bones?
and i wish i could remember when beauty
was a mouth red as pomegranate seeds eyes
like sickle moons. back when it was
more than numbers. ninety-five, eighty-eight.
get down to eighty-five and you will be
beautiful. be
thin and sexless as wet march.
tuesday pa told me: "acceptance ain't something you
can buy at a convenience store."
and i am all ma
Literature
Domestic
gnashing teeth and wild horse eyes
quiver skin in the morning
the nettles sting my spine.
where is my open field,
the tongues of trumpet swans,
my dew covered courtyard
with the willow tree?
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i would like to learn.
flaming me does not teach me a thing
i'm incredibly grateful to those of you who nicely state that you don't like this piece, those who defend it, and of course those who like it.
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Short and sweet but it definitely has a message and that's what I truly lobe about it.