Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Things got ugly, in so many words -May 1st 2013


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if she wants
to find herself described
in something you wrote
tell her, fine
tell her it's there
tell her by all means
come find it

but also warn her ~
for all it's imagined attraction
this has never been
a safe place to go


looking for yourself




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Like so many poems, this piece started life as a tweet/facebook post and I imagined it as jumping-off point for a much larger, self-involved, self-aggrandizing, cabaret of closeted skeletons of what-lead-me-into-writing, slam-poem.  It's taken me the better part of a year to realise I didn't need that, and have the confidence to just let it be a long story short. I'm a slow learner.





-Peace





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