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About Leaving Darien<br />
I was anonymous and ignored in the supermarket—<br />
Until now.<br />
Socially, economically insignificant,<br />
Until I messed up.<br />
In that perfect town—<br />
Its stiff plasticity,<br />
Among the smiling dowagers<br />
And self-absorbed hedge fund wives.<br />
Oh yes, they have something to talk about now.<br />
Whisper to one, and tell all.<br />
Good God, everyone gnashes on a good scandal,<br />
Something to clench their bleached white teeth on.<br />
I am suddenly choice conversation at the club Sunday brunch,<br />
Chewed up and spit out,<br />
Sinewy flesh on the steak, rejected.<br />
I no longer care.<br />
My good ladies, remember.<br />
It could be you, if you dared.<br />
You didn’t dare,<br />
But you wanted to.<br />
Oh, you want to.<br />
Admit it.<br />
Dancing with my Mutant Genes<br />
and the Voodoo Priestess<br />
This blonde baseball bat,<br />
It crashed a hole in the glass wall—<br />
Smashed the plaster.
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