StarCat/CatStar
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.
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New Strange Life<br />
By Ally Malinenko<br />
It was my year of magical thinking<br />
of walking backwards thought the bad luck spot<br />
that someone drew on the cement<br />
at 14 th street<br />
trying to undo whatever curse this was<br />
because we already had enough bad luck.<br />
Me only 37<br />
cancer already mushrooming inside<br />
like an old oak tree<br />
ready to leave the forest<br />
instead of a scared girl<br />
in a new strange life,<br />
so in that year, David<br />
I clung to you,<br />
to your star<br />
to your Freak King promise<br />
to all your alien angel power.<br />
You could make me bulletproof.<br />
Because you managed to transcend<br />
the chasm of my life before cancer<br />
and my life with it<br />
because you alone could<br />
stitch up the shredded remains<br />
that this diagnosis ripped through my life
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