Long Nubby Poems

***A Parenting Tale***

He must’ve been
Just barely fourteen, but still off as
A ninja filling a pillowcase
   with chocolate on Halloween.
Although through all other days 
   his ken was an avocado green,
That is...

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no shoes to wear in today’s race
nubby knees show I’m such a disgrace
but I’ll show them I‘ll keep the pace
its all about regaining if that’s the case

It’s not how I look or who I am
I...

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no shoes to wear in today’s race
nubby knees show I’m such a disgrace
but I’ll show them I‘ll keep the pace
its all about regaining if that’s the case

It’s not how I look or who I am
I...

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"People will forget what you said, forget what you did, 
but will never forget how you made them feel."   
             ...

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A simple piece of cloth
Square, rectangular, oblong
Soft blue, pink, green
Woven, nubby or smooth
It matters not
Cloth
Swaddling my infant babe

Cloth
In tatters
Bearing injuries honorably
Chewed, dragged, hugged
Kitty, bear or tiger
Cloth comes alive 
In my toddler’s arms

Cloth 
Stretched over table...

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Im sorry girl but I know I ****ed up, 
I know I can at times get so drunked up, 
But truth is girl we got to go our own way and suck it up, 
I...

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I kneel in my bedroom 
A nubby knit blanket softens the wood under my knees ankles toes
I take the thin black cap of dark red polish—
	The color my mom said no to when I was...

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