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 Dec 2014 Catrina Sparrow
april
Dear Adaline,
Did you hear my call -
and do you ever miss at all:
our Sundays on the porch steps -
my name just slipping off of your lips?
It's 6pm I'm all alone,
you left me so I'm on my own -
I left a message - did you hear? -
I guess if not I'll leave it here.

Your poetry was too offbeat.
The words you spoke, places we'd meet -
I tore them all out of my brain,
still they cross my mind--
time, time again.
Your sloppy hugs, your breath so sweet -
sweet, so shallow in my sheets.
Our love was all so clumsy, see -
even oak branches release leaves:
200 years, from 80 feet.

But you did not just release me -
you threw me out to clumsy seas.
The tide was rough, the ocean screamed -
and so did I between your teeth.
You chewed me like you didn't care -
your heart was gone, no love was there.
I know it was a short affair -
but Adaline, I was so scared.
The obvious use of rhyme here is meant to make things sound more ironic.
 Dec 2014 Catrina Sparrow
ZL
Midwestern girl
with the slow slang
come a little closer
watch her do thangs
she'll usually have
two first names
fried chicken is probably her favorite;
that child loves a ****,
don't forget a big old l o o o o n g danga lang
**** those country girls sho' a make ya head swang!!
seeing you constantly smoke made me wonder
why are you addicted to it
you said the nicotine made you feel good

i wonder if i make you feel the same way you feel
when you take a drag after a long day

but to you, im just a filter
you need me to keep you from toxins of your mind

then you throw me away
I'd like to tell a true story to you, dear readers. It's not exactly a nice story, but it's one I've only told to a few, so I think the time has come to make it public, especially since I know that the only person involved that would read it is me. This is a story that has changed my life, for good or ill, some experience that curdled my perception of how the world I live in works.

One night, years ago, I wound up at a house party in beautiful St. Augustine, and I was sober when I got there, very late, as I had promised to be the dd. But, we walked from the dorms back to Riberia Street, so I had no responsibilities once we got there. So, while drinking and partaking of other choice substances, I met the now famous Emily, she who I first started really writing for, she who set me free from some pointless idea of what was necessary. Dear God she had perfect *******, and could kiss like French writers wished their wives or lovers could kiss. I fell in love with her that night....and also was wounded at the same time.

Emily had three friends, a Latina from Miami called Natasha ironically, a White girl from up North named Lauren Ruotollo, and another chick from up that way who introduced herself as Kiki. I was in the middle of a conversation with Emily, when I had to ***. So, naturally I walked off the porch and did my business on the side of that house, and while standing there I looked to my left and saw a random dude shoving his thing into a girl's mouth propped against a tree. I thought nothing of it in that moment, and went back to talking to that perfect Emily.

What felt like hours or honestly was only minutes later, on the back porch with my tongue in Emily's mouth and my hand up her shirt, Natasha and Lauren found us; hunting for Kiki. I found her out back, not ten yards from where Emily and I were standing. She was the girl taking it hard from random *******, who left her with not even a thank you. Her skirt and ******* were racked up over her stomach, and when I picked her up, she coughed up *** all over my shirt. I carried her to Natasha's car and put her inside, yelling to God that He owed me one. Emily, Natasha, Lauren and Kiki then rolled off into the wee morning hours, and a little piece of my soul died.

I went back inside that house and couldn't find that empty *******. So I snorted an entire 8 ball and took off my *** covered shirt in the middle of Riberia and burned that ****** then and there.

So when you ask me why I have some problems that didn't come from the Army, I'll tell you this story.
your delicate figure







crushed





on

      the







seament.
I inhale all the conversations that could fill up this room,
but i opt for silent stares.

You exhale your words of disdain,
your negativity,
your rants,
casting deathly glares.
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