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Kelsey KirsChmann<br />
Man + kind ++ rag + doll = (- or +)?<br />
Like a fish I swim deep beneath your bed-boards. I smiiiillle like a<br />
Siberian brown-and-white panther [DiD you hear me growl?]. My daughter’s<br />
name is Minehaha [<strong>The</strong> laughing waters]; my aura is a light emerald<br />
green.<br />
De –<br />
codelimitendbeginagain<br />
Me.<br />
I am the writer lost in a sea of limited opportunity,<br />
the writer without hands, but with fingers [<strong>The</strong> people of Athens without<br />
Athennnnawhereareyou]. <strong>The</strong> quiet little prairie girl,<br />
My Antonia?<br />
Or shall I be no-thing,<br />
and<br />
forgotten.<br />
That would be peace.<br />
P.S. or A Side-Note<br />
Les Miserables at 11, <strong>The</strong> Good Earth when I was eight. Fascinated.<br />
Drawn-in. I, how would you say it, “understood.” I lived in peace<br />
through torment and woke up to your “liberal” + “arts.” You have<br />
stripped me of my last dignity [<strong>The</strong> DigniTy of PeaCeful viTriol, OF VOICE<br />
¬ThaT overwhelms, <strong>The</strong> aCiD slowly DriPPing your soul To PieCes] of the<br />
mind.<br />
I have no father, white,<br />
bearded, a picture of your<br />
tormented Jesus… who<br />
stole my body & gave me<br />
existence<br />
with the same rib from the same<br />
rotten corpse-eating father,<br />
rib of<br />
AdamAristotleAbrahamAnd Rachel?<br />
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