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Saturday’s Child Is Exhausted
I am a child of abundance. My stanzas and the tension in my shoulders,plus the idea of a party,ill advised but always on my mind.I have a slight sense of self,and a slight scent of sweet danger,but the thing I will always treasure are my secrets. I keep my cards close to my heaving chest,hopeful…
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Bed At Six
It’s almost bedtime,because I am so tired.I’ve been torn apart.
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High Anxiety
The alarm went off and she jumped with a start. She fumbled for her phone in the darkness, hearing it clatter to the floor, and almost following it down to the soft carpet before steadying herself on the bedside table. It was quarter past three, according to Lindsay’s alarm clock, and the alarm that filled…
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Viewing
For so long,when night fell,I’d leave my blankets disturbed,inviting my monsters to play,but it’s not anybody’s business.I’m not harmful,hurtful,even interesting,and yet,it becomes a public affair,published and preached about,when all I wanted was to wait and watch the sun rise.I am darling in my defensiveness.I am lonely but loved by the angel on my shoulder.She wears…
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Late Winter
It was spring,but winter’s woes still lingered,ghosts of Christmas past were running late,recoiling when I politely informed them that my lesson had been learned,and so,once again, in the freezing flurries of a greedy winter,I was alone. I’ve nothing to wonder about,but I wander with a busy mind.Clean hands, but a collapsing conscience.This is not my…