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to Truth i never met you. i didn’t want to know you. you live in an unmarked grave. i can’t save you now.
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Internal Memo a reminder to everyone who is receiving this message: membership in the corporation requires membership. associate and honorary members are required to uphold the double standard by any means until further notice.
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Love in the Garden me and me are under the tree k – i – s – s – i – n – g and eating juicy apples and laughing cuz they look like breasts and they…
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Smug you smother me with your hug. your smile finds me wanting. your open hand is a trick. you’re quick to point away. you won’t say. you’ll let it lay just the way you want it.
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to Time you’re not lost. i probe me to find you alive, to robe my children, so they can thrive. you won’t wait; i know. but you won’t go.
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Bull’s Eye you miss the mark. your arrows fly indiscriminately. you are the target. you forgave when no one asked. you forgot when it happened again.
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Duh no one will ask. no one will tell. no one will touch your open hand. there will be no resolution.
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Perpetuity a woman needs a man for a one-night stand. anything else she is told is an old tactic to make it seem like it’s the other way around.
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School you were striking they pretended not to care you went back to playing the Fool for nothing
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You Bought It no refunds. exchange your attitude.
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What’s Funny if everyone laughed and you too can you stop
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Undercover the brother ain’t a lover. his glam and yes ma’am is a scam for your heart to play its part on his stage keeping watch on his rage.
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Strespassed the sea has no borders. waves are above the law. the aftermath of the storm becomes the norm.
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Miss Take i lost time to the daily grind of minding my pain made it rain on childish sunshine hurt what was all mine to love fathers nowhere to be found i am around the thread that…
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Shower Action i couldn’t discern, without glasses, what sort of bug was trying not to drown, as i would, but falling backward is what killed it.
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Action show your face with the right piece at the right time and put it in the right place.
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Ruminoting i was told what i was told thought what i thought was who i thought i was did what i did they were who they were were who they thought they were did what they thought…
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What the mirror reflects a broken sculpture mended with sticky memories. i see it’s wrong no, it’s right no, it’s just light.
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My Grain Of… some grist in my brain mill feels the grind of my mind calling attention to tension between what i don’t want to think i am thinking and the uncouth Truth.
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in the Mirror my life looks over my shoulder warns me to be bolder tells me i’m the holder of everything and nothing. i was i am i will be me.
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Fault Line it’s all mine. i’ve kept it. no one else wanted it. my breasts were too big. my butt was too wide. i had a bad attitude. i chose to respect myself but it was a…
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Pretend tell me you’ll mend me into being. wear me ’til you soil me. pour bleach on my blemishes. wring out my tears. leave me hanging on the line. let the wind whip me and carry my…
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Interdiction you’ll find me on deep discount in the bargain basement with books of old jokes. my name was changed to a comedy of errors so i didn’t know when it was my turn. i could burn.
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Rage daddy was mean mommy played along the song of ages people in cages real as the feel of the steal of steel bars enough handcuffs for all who disagree with whoever sees god in the mirror
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Whipped Same time. Same Race. A horse beating itself doesn’t believe it’s dead.
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ExCiLlusionist if you’re a two percenter in anything you’re either special or special, hard to get along with or have a hard time, or both. what’s your specialty?
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Beware the Preacher your prison bars wilt with our Guilt. nothing’s the same without Shame. where you gonna point now that we’re gone? how you gonna get along?
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Scapenote you’re together cuz of me. you deserve each other’s company. leave my head. i’m sending a well-fed goat in my stead.
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to Me Too i was an escaped caged-bird flying confused, full-speed, into an invisible window. i was dazed when you, and you and you and you, picked me up and pretended to mend my wings and told…
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to IT of course you’re obvious even though no one mentioned you to me i should have seen you even though you are invisible
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to Divorce Children will want to Stay where a Soul can Play.
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to Wed ’til death of the heart do us part the shopping cart.
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Dismissal i told the rat in my basement that he had to go. he told me that he was leaving anyway, cuz he’d been living off the unanswered questions lying around everywhere. But, now i don’t ask…
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to Deflect i look for me in the dark night. what do i see? a fire. a liar burns, twists and turns in the light, points and screams shame, tells me i’m the same. i turned the…
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to Devalue you hold her of be you tea eye am knot your moos to con fews with comp laments.
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Court of Love Judge Jude says: be true to your self or love is a lie.
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to: the Swan i’ve had PTSD ever since you attacked me, then trapped me with a name. i’m not playing that game. from, not Leda anymore or a whore.
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to Throat don’t choke. spit out Truth. let in fresh air.
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Horse Race i was constrained in a race i couldn’t win by interlocutors betting i was trained to stay on track, but i dropped the reins and the load on my back. now i gallop in the…
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Court of Love fake futures trading is legal but not lovable
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Meaning Silence Freedom to fill the void with answers, while imprisoned in an unspoken lie hiding in place without a face.
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to Mighty Man You use a girl in distress as a reason to kill; change your face; forget where you had no place and now don’t want to be or see; hand her a bitter pill; promise…
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to Butter Get a plate. I’m a hot potato. You will drop me. Smother me, then. We won’t last. Repast.
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Court of Love Judge Jude says: Don’t be a rude driver. Obey the rules Fool. Don’t ride pride over love. Proceed with care. All is fair.
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Court of Love we used to play. now i pay. you had me caged in silent rage. let me count the ways 365 days. now i smile. it’s been a little while.
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Bend in the Road i am a light beam. my curve is sculpted by the gravity of memory.
Martha Cinader 