Best Arlene Poems

She was lean, she was mean, a fighting machine.
Sixteen brothers had toughened her up.
She was secret woman, our little Arlene.
Raised on cold kerosene from a cup.
 
Our mother had passed when Arlene came into the world,
On a horribly stormy and mean October Saturday night.
We all...

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you don't know what you have until it's gone, i wish i would have known what went wrong. 
oh yeah the ciggiretes. she smoked them till she was out of breath. the house always 
smelled of those stinking butts gosh, that scent would drive me...

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I was not witness the night of your arrival
That night your majestic mother suffered in motherly pains

I did not see the starry sky that evening
Under the sky you came to earth

I didn't see the dragonflies coming from moonlight that night
In that light you first smiled

I...

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