To the Singing Lark
...Oh! How like you, I long to be a singing lark
Who in the blue firmament like a tiny speck
Remains invisible, drowning the air in music sweet
Rising higher and darting up with movements...
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Categories:
dizzier, appreciation, bird, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
Toothpick Wrists and Gay Thoughts
...I was born 6 lbs. 9 oz. with blond hair and blue eyes.
I was also born gay
I am anorexic.
And you would think people would ridicule me for this instead of me being gay.
Surely they would see h...
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Categories:
dizzier, anxiety, depression, gender, ,
Form: Prose
Artemisia, Part 5 of 12
...Judge Daniele Saggio
This year of our salvation, sixteen twelve.
Now. Gentileschi? Don Orazio?
This suit is yours. You’d press it? Drop it? Shelve
it? Very good. And you are Tazzio?
Be...
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Categories:
dizzier,
Form: Terza Rima
Drinkin Buddies
...Pour a shot for me, pour a shot for you.
Swallow down, so quick is the liqueur.
You recoil in pleasure, it tastes good.
Set it up again, time to put up another two.
You think about forgetting the pa...
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Categories:
dizzier, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, lost
Form: Ballad
"your Unforgiven"
...It's been five long years,
Although it seems a thousand lifetimes ago...
It marked the beginning of fresh new fears for me-
The day my mother became my foe...
I would'nt believe it could happen...
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Categories:
dizzier, childhood, confusion, daughter, children,
Form: Dramatic Monologue