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February 6, 2013
Love and Other Demons by `LadyLincoln Suggester Writes: An unpretentious and undiluted snapshot of life and loss, as told in sincere and meaningful prose.
Literature
Lullaby
"I've been waiting my entire life to tell you that I'm dying and I figured I'd finally get it over with.
So here I am, carving forgive me
into my teeth, so every time that I speak
I can still say that I'm sorry.
More years have passed in the last than I care to remember
but I could never forget:
In eighth grade my chorus teacher always told me,
'Michael, you'll never be good enough.'
and it always excited me. It reminded me of my mother.
On the last day of school she smiled,
her teeth jagged like a train wreck,
she didn't say a word,
but I knew exactly what she meant.
In high school I fell in love with a roadside bomb waiting to be deton
Literature
Pressure
Something broke.
A hard CRACK while sitting in
a soft chair. No pain registered.
The absence of it
is like watching explosions in space.
You follow the curve of your skull. You remember
how skulls are formed like tectonic plates.
Your head wants to be a planet,
volcanic, living, in change.
You continue to your left shoulder,
the one with all the problems.
But today, it has nothing to say.
Your rib cage moves
like oceanic waves, expecting a storm
that hasn't come.
You stand up,
homo erectus,
you consider your legs,
homo sapiens,
nothing feels wrong,
homo stabilis.
But you can break
more than your body.
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The Animal
(Howl into my ear;
give me your claws.
I want the animal in you;
in you I shall nest.)
Take your clothes off, take them off for me.
Let me see the scars and the marks,
those dark moles and faint sun spots.
I want to memorize the way your fur grows.
I want to tickle my cheeks with your goose bumps.
Let me count the bruises and the cuts.
I'll bless them with names;
I'll lick away the blood stains.
We can lie skin to skin for days.
I have enough kisses for your brows and lashes,
for nails, teeth and toes, for thighs and knees;
in your curves and dents I'll nuzzle my nose.
Let me see your skin dance.
Through and around; your
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I still have yet to find the words that will do her memory justice, but I will continue to seek them out with love and honor.
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The paragraphs in italics are my mother's, quoted verbatim.
EDIT: Thank you to ^Beccalicious and `thetaoofchaos for the DD.
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The paragraphs in italics are my mother's, quoted verbatim.
EDIT: Thank you to ^Beccalicious and `thetaoofchaos for the DD.
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I am so sorry for you loss, my friend. I can't begin to understand
how it is to lose a mother.
You wrote a wonderful piece and I feel sorry for your mum too
for going through such a tough life and end up getting sick with
cancer.
Thank you for sharing it with us. All of the best to you
how it is to lose a mother.
You wrote a wonderful piece and I feel sorry for your mum too
for going through such a tough life and end up getting sick with
cancer.
Thank you for sharing it with us. All of the best to you