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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:34 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 8/12/08 (warning: graphic language)
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 09:02 AM by BlueIris
"To Exist Is To Continue,"

mouth forced open for answers no questions
rush into. Never the stiff glue
of truth.
The horizon drawn down into
bedtime. He wants the dark

darker. His genitals hard
tin. She's a big girl. She's eleven.
She's a

flirt. That's what he tells himself, making her
listen, believe it's only one more act
of nature. Persistent,

blame so enormous it can't hold the shape
of her. Nature. Reclusive,
a wood wasp grappling its way through the dry woods
of aspen. Nature. Like the hummingbird born

without wings. She's a big girl. She's a
flirt. Too old now for make-believe, tales
of escape. That's what he tells her.
Just as hyenas desire the matted hair, blood, stolen
whimper. It's nature. Like monsoon,
eclipse. Like a father
backing away.

—Gayle Elen Harvey
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:56 AM
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1. That's disturbing.
Eleven. big girl. flirt.

The repetition is hypnotic and terrible, like a justification of things one knows is wrong. So one keeps telling himself in the hopes it'll seem less wrong.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 09:01 AM
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2. "...like a justification of" things one knows are wrong.
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 09:02 AM by BlueIris
Good summary.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 01:57 PM
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3. Kick.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:36 PM
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4. Kick.
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