tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19232259084173883202024-03-05T22:47:45.466-08:00Fire from a Different SunIsadora Gruyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036782300945079952noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923225908417388320.post-24317696725213750162019-06-09T07:13:00.002-07:002019-06-09T07:19:48.655-07:00Squad Goals (am I doing this right???)<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ve been pissing in the river </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">that brings me my dinner since 92.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This is not a metaphor</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">or fuck, maybe it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ll just lay myself out and let you decide </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">what is muddy </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">what is mantra</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">what is cotton candy whispers</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">on a ferris wheel ride that ends</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">with carts coming unpinned</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and children falling</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and news cameras rounded up</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">to tell us what is safe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ve been shoving over </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">gum ball machines</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">all around town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Cause I like the sound of hard candy</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">skittering to freedom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And the way babies laugh at it</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And the way old men sneer at it </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And the way some people don’t notice</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">because they are fantasizing</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">about sandwiches and wearable technology</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">that knows how often their heart stops </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">while they sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">but does nothing to revive them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ve been praying </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">for cinder blocks to fall from sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Because cement showers</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">bring down watchtowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And I never did trust the watchmen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Or how lightning greens the grass</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Or how sweat cools the skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Or how I clean chicken in the kitchen sink</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">flecks of flesh and bacteria</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">catching in the drain stopper</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">glistening and perfect</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">waiting to spoil.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Impossible to wash away. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">For <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/06/just-one-word-muddy.html" target="_blank">Marian's prompt</a>. The line about cinderblocks and watch men may be familiar. I used it as the last line of a previous poem but wasn't happy with it there. I used Marian's challenge to use "muddy" as inspiration and rebuilt a framework where I think it fits better. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">So this has happened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have shut my eyes for last time, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and it’s a bit sooner </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">than you would have liked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I think it would be fucking beautiful</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">if you could somehow </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">get all the minutia of my life</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">to gather around me and join hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That teddy bear I bought myself at 29</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">because I was going through a bad break up </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and wanted something soft to punch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The principal balance of my mortgage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The library card I spent months trying to get.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The tomato plants I tried to grow on the fire escape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Have them all hold hands at my side</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">until there is a circle 25 miles in diameter</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of all the worthless shit I ever wasted time on. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">For <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/just-one-word-etiquette.html" target="_blank">Marian's prompt </a>at real toads. Viva la. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The stale gray cackle of TV gone off broadcast, and Charlie sound asleep in his armchair. Head down, lolling back and forth like a walnut stupidly free of its shell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Me and my slanted hope pace in the kitchen. I walk clumsy in these late hours. I don’t bother turning on a light. Instead stub my toe. Slam my palm on the kitchen table to hold in a yelp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and how you went home every night, </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/05/camera-flash.html" target="_blank">the Camera Flash</a> prompt over at Toads today. We were given a photo to respond to. The image reminded me of those afternoons when there is nothing to do but wait for night and see what unfolds. </span></div>
Isadora Gruyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036782300945079952noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923225908417388320.post-11720805865099155912017-10-14T16:40:00.001-07:002017-10-14T16:40:36.875-07:00Weather machine blessings<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Written for <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/10/fussy-little-forms-shadorma.html" target="_blank">Marian's prompt </a>at over at toads. She asked is write in the fussy little form of Shadorma, which is a six line not rhyming poem with the syllable structure of 3-5-3-3-7-5. </span></div>
Isadora Gruyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036782300945079952noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923225908417388320.post-64830420623195799562017-10-08T14:33:00.000-07:002017-10-08T14:35:28.185-07:00Opened ended letter to a lobsterman<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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Isadora Gruyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036782300945079952noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923225908417388320.post-39927419541313510482017-04-16T13:28:00.002-07:002017-04-16T13:28:39.030-07:00Bad Tourists<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And keep working the room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You’ve caught the eye of a single </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">banker </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">and a married baker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Neither care that</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">you’ve crumpled your cocktail napkin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">into a sweaty ball in your fist</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">instead of folding it twice over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Eat the cake, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and dance alone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Your shoes are reading</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This machine kills fascists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And you're making eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">at a sweater vested </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">jalopy owner who could </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">smoosh your butterfly</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">good and proper</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">even with a mouth full </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of cake paste</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and cab fare jangling </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">in his pockets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But you’ll eat the cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And come home alone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">still clutching that cocktail napkin</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">in your hand like you were saving it</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for your scrapbook.</span></div>
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For my first <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/04/out-of-standard-signs-of-time.html" target="_blank">Poems in April prompt</a> at Toads, I wrote a new installment in my black birthday cake series. For this out of standard prompt, I asked the Garden Dwellers to pick an image of a protest sign and write a poem with the phrase that was in no way political. For my image, I chose this image of my favorite protestor: Woody Guthrie. </div>
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Isadora Gruyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036782300945079952noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923225908417388320.post-15284898568940196292017-02-22T18:41:00.000-08:002017-02-22T18:54:43.492-08:00Pencilz Down<ol>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">1. That patch of dirt out by the drive way will never be a garden because</span><br />
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<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">you know science and science told you to stop trying to grow things where your heart wants to see dust. </span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">the king rats and mole people have claimed that patch of land for themselves. You hesitate to play the apex predator card this far into the suburbs. Plus it’s sort of neat to see them come together for a greater cause. </span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">again, science, but different reasons.</span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">again king rats and mole people but because of fear. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -18px;">2. You’re not worried about drinking</span><span style="text-indent: -18px;"> </span></span><br />
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<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">city water from lead pipes. You dream big and risk it all. </span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">cocoa with marshmallows at your kitchen counter like a goddamn toddler who cannot hold her gin. </span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Polonium in your tea. </span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Tea in your polonium. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. When confronted with discussing your favorite book</span></div>
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<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">moonwalk away. They won’t love it the way you love it.</span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">say it’s a tie between the Velveteen Rabbit and the Lorax. Celebrate your subterfuge by moonwalking away. </span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">answer with the Economic Essays of 1848, wait for another communist to agree and make out with them profusely, then go for kebabs. </span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">be the asshole who admits that they love to read, but not books. </span></span></li>
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Isadora Gruyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036782300945079952noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923225908417388320.post-87491198964108235662016-07-04T10:38:00.002-07:002016-07-04T10:54:26.202-07:00Austerity Measures<div style="color: #323333; font-family: helvetica; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">or I will leave </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">when the thaw comes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">when the sun freckles </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and burns the bridge of my nose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Until then, we are gargoyles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">perched on our cathedral couch</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">with noses cold and hands running,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">our swollen cuticles stained yellow</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">with the ever expanding promise </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Behind the airlock door </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">there is something keeping this rocketship safe </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Perhaps it is better left dead and unsaid </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">perhaps I can teach my tongue to curl and figure eight</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">fancy and tight</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">or maybe this is a game of fetch</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and babbly-</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">throws the steak knife</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and I bring her lilac breath mints,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">flashing the smile I rehearsed </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">during my vivisection lessons with the butcher. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The pattern of the bathroom tile </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">until the red crayon spots you inflicted on her</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">flaked off and faded away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You swaddled her tightly</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and rocked her back and forth, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Her eyes frozen open. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Her plastic body </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">holding the heat of your folded arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You now understand </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The cat can no longer stand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">She’s dying, the way old house cats do:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">tongue paper dry, skin and fur </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">sagging from the bone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">She’s chosen to curl up</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">next to the cool porcelain toilet base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You bring her canned tuna </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and a water dish </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and swaddle her in your bathrobe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Her paws no longer holding heat</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">in your folded arms. </span></div>
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Isadora Gruyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13036782300945079952noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923225908417388320.post-80844434793894179602016-06-11T20:34:00.002-07:002016-07-04T10:34:55.265-07:00County Lines Mean Nothing<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The same sun that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">steal pigments </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the billboards </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stretched along the freeway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">blushes my cheeks, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even in January,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when the salted roads crack</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">under black ice.</span></div>
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