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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

Friday, January 4, 2013

Diary of a Girl



Strut down dangerous passages
Alleys and parking lots
the stage
Nervy
Lean in pick-up windows
Confound rednecks
Oddly, opposites attract
Killer heels stamp out 
bitter innocence
nasty cigarette butts
Trademark golden haired wig
Lashes blink 
silvery sequins
Razor- sharp nails
painted to perfection
Beneath blouse blossom 
twin deceits
Doting diva fans 
fuel  alpha- girl addiction
Years endlessly unspool
Frayed cashmere sweater
nicked from sister.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Get Listed, in which we are asked to compose a poem with some or all of the 26 listed words (in bold)

met this lovely lady (Britney Girl Dale) at the WBC counter-protest in Annapolis 1/2/13 
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Video of the Westboro Baptist Church counter-protest in Annapolis, MD 1/2/13
(If you look closely in the crowd, you can see my daughter and me with our "Congrats Newlyweds!" and "Love Ignites More Fires Than Hate Can Extinguish" signs!)