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31 lines
568 B
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categories:
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- Poetry
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date: 2019-07-12 12:00:00 +0000
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tags:
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- Introspective
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title: One of Six (or Sick of Six)
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layout: poetry
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Every now and then, I detach
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From the talking and the laughing.
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My skull splits in two
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So that my right hemisphere
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Can peer into the left:
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It finds my younger self, sobbing,
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For he cannot speak up
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And air his grievances
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Lest he inconveniences
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A heavily burdened family.
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The grief drips down his bronchial tubes
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And festers.
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We thought we would grow out of it.
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But the grief grew
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As we watched its roots wrap around our ribs.
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