Sued for Outstanding Balance
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We used to call it Pit City.
Section eight housing.
My mom called ahead—
I was sixteen and still scared
to ask for what I needed.
I was on work-study
at a clean family practice
just around...
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Categories:
sweat suit, age, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 63 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xiii-- Vacation
...11 o'clock at night. Everyone is
In bed. Molly was in the adjoining
Room with the seven and
Desharah. Damian was awake
and Planning. Dominant
Damian was deeply devious
in his domain. In b...
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Categories:
sweat suit, adventure, atheist, beach, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Hiding In Plain Sight
...I had my plan memorized,
and I picked the right time.
I walked into the bank
when there was no line.
I walked up to the teller
and presented a note.
She hadn’t lived my life,
you see, I wa...
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Categories:
sweat suit, adventure, fantasy, hope, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
She Didn'T Know
...She Didn’t Know
I had my plan memorized, and I picked the right time.
I walked into the bank when there was no line.
I walked up to the teller and presented a note.
She hadn’t lived my life, ya...
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Categories:
sweat suit, humanity, imagery, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
She Didn'T Know Part Ii
...She didn’t know pt.2
The Getaway
Making my get away I was walking fast.
Hiding the two bags of money in an old target shopping bag.
Walking with no witnesses as to which way I went.
It was al...
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Categories:
sweat suit, fantasy, humanity, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Cold
...The strong, blistering wind cuts through my leather jacket...
I huddle to keep the cold at bay...
Three months ago I was cursing the sun, beating it back behind the clouds; wishing for a cool Nove...
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Categories:
sweat suit, absence, angst, loss,
Form: Free verse
Booty Call
...I watch as she arrives
from my bedroom window.
creeping up my drive.
I open the door, she smiles.
we both knew what time it was.
Fresh out of the club.
she came to me!
bodies crying for me.
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Categories:
sweat suit, mystery
Form: Free verse
Kali
...The Hindu God, Kali, has two faces.
She is life and death, beauty and ugliness,
motherliness and destructiveness.
She was my muse.
She bought me helicopter rides high over the city.
We ate ...
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Categories:
sweat suit, angst, introspection, life
Form: Free verse
Landing Lights
...Landing lights blinking in the twilight,
Beneath the turbines howling blast,
And the scream of descent;
Stark and still, staring into midnight
As the neon rushes past
And the wheels connect ceme...
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Categories:
sweat suit, loss, mystery, places, time,
Form: Verse
A Gift Fit For a Pig
...It was my 22nd birthday.
I had just given birth to our 2nd daughter
1 month earlier.
He went shopping for my birthday present.
I had visions of jewels and lacy things.....
I couldn't wait to ...
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Categories:
sweat suit, caregiving, confusion, family, friendship,
Form: I do not know?