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Fall, I Did
Fall, I did today saw the Inbox, one message from a name of a person who’s no longer a person hasn’t been for years because he’s gone on, on Billy Billy who died of an aneurism or a catastrophic stroke...
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Tuesday
Tuesday a day of extended anxiety “on” for the job “on” for my class and just for kicks when I’m tired enough to rest my head a phone call cancer is terminal again nothing the doctors can do six months...
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Yesterday I
Just yesterday, I was struggling to come up with something to blog about. My Aunt Celia died early this morning.
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A Reader’s Purge: Binging on the Ruminations of Little Girls and Dying
I’ve been crying since I was eight years old. Blame Lurlene McDaniel. I do. In the summer of 1987, I found death on a shelf at the Lee County Library in Sanford, North Carolina. I had been looking for...
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arthritis
the grief of loss digs in deep wedges between the joints arthritis for the psyche aching on good days screaming “fuck you” on bad hollowing out the hollowed out part of you who knew there’d be so many...
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Contexting
I took my leave because there’s nothing left to do. I thought I’d be more upset, saying goodbye for the last time and knowing it was finally, truly the last time. She moaned in agony. I patted her...
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failing
my heart is going slowly now it gave a good go of it beating and all those moments of bitter retreat ebb and flow of blood coming in and out of spite until slowly now the organ is engorged swollen,...
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*: Otherwise, Not Titled
Aunt Ty died years ago. I did not witness her death but I witnessed her dying. Aunt Jackie and Aunt Celia, in that order, were the next closest kin who watched Ty suffer. Now they are all dead. I’m the...
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Birthday Refrain
A few years later I’m ready to revisit the statement I made years earlier People with January 2nd birthdays die and I do not fear for their deaths. Truth is people with January 2nd birthdays lie.
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Fate of Fire
who would choose the fate of fire the apathy of plunge blade for blood in the face of death some of us shine brighter as if destruction was our calling in life
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Birthday Refrain
A few years later I’m ready to revisit the statement I made years earlier People with January 2nd birthdays die and I do not fear for their deaths. Truth is people with January 2nd birthdays lie.
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Knowing the Dead
In a sleep, the wound wept its tears Bloodshed Seeped from itself without knowing But I knew I saw your death a million times before you did But then you said In a sleep, all around was death, death,...
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