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Foreign

Foreign

So foreign to this place.
   There is absolutely no grace. 
 Just this disgraceful disgrace

Individuals ... so unaware, 
Unalert,
 So fake.. unbelievable.. unheard
 What's this altered trend

Multitudinous of eyes that don't see,
   Hearts that feel but deny to live...

...

Where's the ones I belong to?
    Ones I will smile to be just next to

Maybe I need a dose of 'normalness'
   To accept this mess... 
  As me and rest are not friends.
It all may aswell be in my hands. 
...

No help. One way is to free my 'foreigness'
Categories: unalert, deep, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

The Tabarelli Girl

From when we leave the womb, said Freud (or Jung), 
until the day we die, life's one long try 
to climb back in. That cold air hits our lungs 
with such a shock, we cannot help but cry. 

Her name was Pina. She could twirl her skirt 
impressively. One evening, home alone, 
twirling her nylon nightdress, unalert, 
she caught the flames. That fireplace was a zone 

forbidden her, but how could she resist 
the warmth and light the gaping chasm offered? 
The fabric wrinkled, melted, shriveled, hissed 
and bunched between her thighs. She must have suffered. 

A young, bewildered altar boy back then, 
I watched her mother rage and rail and rave, 
unhinged by grief. It took six burly men 
to hold her back from leaping in the grave.
Categories: unalert, loss,
Form: Quatrain


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