Row and Wait

was a rape at age fourteen
as the babies kept coming
with kitchen rods I flushed then down
and kept smiling for you to tell
thank you it lasted five years until I put my foot down
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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July 16, 2015 at 7:22 AM
but really a gun pointed at me early to keep me shush I shot myself in the belly at four in the morning and with a new navel I went my way
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