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yet we breathe

carrying like medals
tokens of being alive
food clothes
needs more and more
coming in and out of door
sleeping awake
through midlife blues
lost jobs
broken hearts
unkept vows
groping in the dark
dim-lit days
cathartic nights
masked social
torn in the upheaval
tearing within
making poems our ailment's remedy
our ink's flow
a placebo
the poet's might
a myth.

yet we breathe.
power to forget is beyond us.
for maria.
 May 2014 Marlo
Aeya Jean Johnson
Empty words fill
Empty spaces,
Wasting our time and
Using our efforts to
Impress an empty audience.
The words are normal,
Effortless,
Sleepy.
Tedious and tensionless
They sweep the imaginary landscape:
Wasteland.
They speak with easy access to
Shallow hearts.
Slight stabs hold no pain--
The blade is too dull.
This bore sickens me;
These words hold no pull.
Goalless structure has
No gold.
Wasted breath on nothing.

Now change:
We are the words that make life worth it...
                    ...Poets.
Prolix Definition: Tedious, boring words.
 May 2014 Marlo
Vivian
there are two types of girls,
or so I was told:
church girls and
bad girls, and my mother
said this with such finality it was
clear they were mutually exclusive.

of course,
you know this is
Not True;
you once characterized yourself as
"the type of 'church girl' to light a
blunt in the bathroom (just sayin)" and
that single quote says more about you than
all this fragile wording, this silica dust
heated and wrought into intricacies and
metaphor and conceit.
You
are far more than
a bad girl,
are far more than
a church girl,
will never be
my girl
and this is how it should be.
you are not
to be domesticated
a la Robin Thicke; you are
uncontrollable, your lust and
disdain for monogamy
twin hurricanes, destroying
New Orleans in a heartbeat and
rendering FEMA
impotent in the next.

there are two types of girls:
other girls, and
You.
 May 2014 Marlo
miki
Our society
 May 2014 Marlo
miki
Parents won't make up.
****** girls don't shut up.
Pathetic girls cry,
Over a bad guy.

Some girls judge
an innocent girl as a ****.
But do they even know that
it takes one to know one?

They say be yourself,
then they judge you for being yourself.
What the **** is happening to us?
Our society is really ****** up.
I don't even know why I wrote this.
 May 2014 Marlo
nissa
20w - maybe
 May 2014 Marlo
nissa
maybe what hurts so bad is that we're two broken girls writing about the same boy
 May 2014 Marlo
EG
Dont feel bad for me,
Im a big girl,
and big girls are strong,
we get over things.
 May 2014 Marlo
kanda
girls
 May 2014 Marlo
kanda
the girls who are made from fire
the girls who run with the wolves
the girls who know diamonds are only carbon
the girls who still give a ****
the girls who cry themselves to sleep at night
the girls who are good
the girls who are bad
the girls who are bound by religion
the girls who **** anyone they like
the girls who smoke cigars
the girls who crash against the shore

write em all.

the **** survivors
the drug addicts
the businesswomen
the doctors
the teachers
the mothers
the lovers
the daughters
the sisters
you
me
us

write em all.
happy belated women's day!
proud to be a girl.
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