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[florencemeivey]

Ode to the Other Girls

I was seventeen and caught between A girlhood and my future When a man I've never known Imparted upon me what he believed Was a pearl of praise and wisdom "Don't wear it that way," he had to say Pointing at the flowers I wore, Crowned upon my head

"It makes you look like all the other girls."

My fangs were not quite yet long enough, My courage a diamond in the rough, To tell him what it was I wanted to "But mister," is what I wish I'd said, Replaying the sepia memory within my head "I want to look like all the other girls." For the other girls, they stride boldly (yet never coldly) My cavernous chest becomes a home when they laugh, And braid my hair for me with flowers, For I never learned how

The other girls are crafted of love and light, And so I think it very right That from that moment, I have grown Just like all the other girls.

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My heart was the crater

And you, the meteorite

I took to be a wishing star

There is an irony here-

That which I wished upon

To make me whole

Is what emptied me for good

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I turn to Ares.

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Vote

I love you, you say

As you cast your vote

For someone

So far from loving me,

They think I shouldn't exist

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One May night I stand

With bare toes curled

Around the grass

And to my lips,

Pressed a glass

Of cranberry wine

And I crane my neck,

So undignified,

Up to the sky

And I see: two planes,

And the suggestion

Of a star

I weigh the pros and cons

Of living and my life

Cons: I will never know

A great love-

Whatever the fuck that means

Con: I live as though

I'm in a drama-

A very boring drama,

The likes of which

Win prestigious awards

I ponder death casually,

Wonder if I can brave

The ennui of old age

But alas it's time

To weigh the pros;

I am not so depressed

That I can't count those

Pro: Maybe a kiss

To the forehead

And someone who wonders

Where you were

Can make up the loss

Of a great love

Pro: I like dramas,

And they sure beat

Tragedies, or

Adam Sandler movies

I tip my head back and drain

The sweet bitter

Of cranberry wine

And with my eyes

To the sky

I can just make them out-

A smattering

Of distant stars

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I waft as a ghost through these halls

Each room a memory,

Each memory a burden,

Each burden a gift,

Wrested from my soul,

But it was a good fight

I drift up behind you,

Press my fingertips

To the nape of your neck

And wonder if you feel me

Wonder if you know I am here-

Wonder if you knew I was there

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Darling, is it any wonder

You feel that you have never

Fit in anywhere?

There are not walls on this earth

High enough to contain you;

You are a creature meant

To mingle with the moon

And coalesce with the stars

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Vote

I love you, you say

As you cast your vote

For someone

So far from loving me,

They think I shouldn't exist

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October

The fall leaves whisper

And yet their call is so loud

They are calling to me,

Calling for me

I go to them; 

I dwell awhile

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Home

He doesn't put butterflies

In my stomach.

He doesn't make my heart

Pump out double-time.

~

But every time I see him

A smile splits my face

And every synapse within me

Sighs out home

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Choice

When I look at the state of things,

I cannot help but to think

Of my body, lay bleeding

Staked on one desperate grab

At some semblance of freedom

I cannot help but feel

Somewhere down the line

A mistake, made in love

Will exchange ribbons on wrists

For cuffs cutting in behind my back

Or else back-alley dealings,

Instruments dirty and sharp

But I have no choice in the matter

You leave me no choice

For what is the risk of death,

In the face of a life held hostage?

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Lungs

Every breath with you

is like ten without

Never enough to fill my lungs

Gasping for another

Sweetest relief, and then

Suffocating again

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Tbh

Me 😩

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Springtime

The work demands,

But outside is siren’s call

Beckoning me, tempting

With sun and wind all

The work can sit and wait

Until another distant dawn

The grass and bloom calls,

And spring is too soon gone

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Awakening

All the many paths of my life converged with you

And suddenly, they all made sense