Birthday Abuse Poems

Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive)...

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The day you left me betrayed under the sky full of star,
I realized how deep were my scars.
When you held me with aggression,
you broke our...

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I feel like it's a consistent cycle that keeps repeating over and over
Consistent disappointments from my mother
You somehow make your little girl who's not such...

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Supari raped Berry repeatedly,bound,and gagged her in the basement.
The next day,her seventeenth birthday,he gave her food and a shower,
then locked her back in the dark...

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I went to a museum Saturday
enjoying art with daughter, friend, and wife.
It was our daughter's 30th birthday-
a lovely way to celebrate her life!
Then clouds descended...

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Memories trickle down my spine
Murmurs flood into my mind
Your scent is haunting my soul 
This nightmare has been growing old
I blow out the candles yet...

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She blew the candles
after she was ninety, feet on the earth, mind distorded by the counted years.
She still blew the candles with the only ones...

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The quest for eternity (Jeff Bezos)

He awoke under the bed; it had been his birthday 
and had drunk champagne and eaten Danish pastry
He stretched, feeling...

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The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior

Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy 
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the...

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Enough of a struggle,
When we banned goods smuggle
To against riches snuggle
And soon sound The Bugle

Enough of struggle:
Lots of body wriggle
For Danes’ Illicit Gin
That would lots...

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Agay lun pechay lun
lun lun lun
Dain lun bain lun
lun lun lun
Opar lun nechay lun
lun lun lun.
Note.Ham sab lund ki paidavar hain.
Hamaray opar Lanat bay shumaar.......

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Life

Life is full of pain, 
and I don't know why? 

I do in fact...
know the Lord, 
I know Him... 
by name. 
He is with me....

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Butterfly

Butterfly sweet, 
lovely wings of gossamer gold. 
Stretch your tips to the stars, 
as that is the reality of freedom. 
Glide for hours above the...

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These... 

These are the days my friend, 
that we thought would never come. 
They are beautiful beyond belief, 
and they are moving fast. 
The seconds...

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I continue to await wisdom 
the sagacity I was assured 
would come with age
For the rough edges of life
to be worn smooth over time
like the...

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