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Here Lies That Sad Girl From The Internet
Where will the statue of me reside? When I am a pile of bones in the ground, rarely recalled by my son, who has his own life to lead, and manages to make it back on February 1st, with roses and poppies to place on a headstone, where I am identified as a wife and…
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Birthday Wish
I’m your beautiful birthday girl, all wrapped up in a bow, waiting to be undone, leaning against my garden wall, waiting for a kiss that never comes, because we live in a lockdown world, where loneliness is the only constant, no contact is the contract we sign, for some faraway fantasy of eventual freedom. I…
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It’s My Birthday Tomorrow
The sun has danced with the earth three hundred and sixty four times since I last let go of a year. I am in my garden, a new one, since it was last January 31st, and the sun has already said goodbye. The next time I see her, I will be a new woman, an…
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Family Ties
Blood can be so thick, but it never flows easy, water, you can trust.
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I Don’t Cry Anymore
My eyes have been dry for such a long time, sandy beaches, suddenly deserts. The sun sets as I settle in your lap, dry eyes, with no tortured tears, deep in a trance, hypnotised by how you hold me, so soft, so secure.