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 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
Tidal.
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
were you to walk into
my life, you might smell
chai tea and sweet berry
lotion, I hope that would
be enough to comfort

you
(c) Brooke Otto
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
Chorus.
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
i pulled away and
you sighed as if my
lips were only poetry.
(c) Brooke Otto
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
Skinny.
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
I should preface this by saying
that I have my good days, but

everything is in the wrong place
everything is in the wrong place

and I wish I could see in the mirror
what they have seen in me but instead

everything is disjointed and crushed
beneath offhanded comments, and
the overwhelming need to be pretty

I just want to be pretty
I just want to be pretty.
(c) Brooke Otto


the universal struggle.
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
Molten.
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
in the past
i've thought
I was doing
people favors.
as it turns out
I was giving
them open
access to
scald
me.
(c) Brooke Otto
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
Sanctity.
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
he's only done
it a few times
where he holds
me in his arms,
tight like my
mother's womb
must of been.
how would he
know? But he
just does.

he just does.
(c) Brooke Otto
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
i have seen people lose
their innocence, I have
seen them tie their feet
with vine and swallow
rocks with smiles on
their faces.
(c) Brooke Otto
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
once you wrote me a letter on your
typewriter with a quote from the little
prince (which took me only an hour
to read)

because it is she that I have listened
to when she grumbled, or boasted or
even sometimes when she said nothing.
she is my rose.


perhaps then, I was thankful for all the
times when I was angry, naive or
mean in which you only smiled and
tried to hold me. Maybe we really
did love each other.

I am painfully grateful, if that is
even possible.
(c) Brooke Otto
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
if it is true that some
get worse before they
get better, then I hope
God finds you in
between and
offers you
grace just
to see.
(c) Brooke Otto
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
Two to one.
 May 2013 LDuler
brooke
it's understandable
that I have none of
my own memories,
they are all shared,
but I will make new
ones, I will make
new ones.
(c) Brooke Otto
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