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Danny C
Poems
May 2013
Waiting Room (Draft)
I opened up a Men's Health
as awkwardly as I was sitting
in that cold, dry room
filled with cheap leather chairs.
"7 Steps to Being Confident,"
Only seven, he says.
The first read, "Love Yourself."
Not a moment, I whispered
Nope,
frightened by my instinct.
I'd like to see you try
I threatened, tossed back
into a memory of a failing roof.
Divorce is a landmine
that twists and tears off your leg.
You'll stand after a year,
but you'll never walk again.
Itβs an endless photo album
that you can't keep closed up,
locked away in a dusty attic.
All my wars raged in a single year.
One-legged and trying to run away,
I couldn't dare love someone like that.
"They ******* up, your mum and dad."
-Philip Larkin
Written by
Danny C
31/M/Annoyed in Illinois
(31/M/Annoyed in Illinois)
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