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Community News Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025 by Gavin M Roy After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org. What you need to know: * No accounts will be automatically created * No content will be automatically transferred * When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform. Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021 by V. Blake Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks! Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020 by V. Blake Hope you and yours are well. A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019 by V. Blake ..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike. So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard! Older News

Poem of the Day for 06/20/26 Intoxication by Lisa Marie Brodsky “Dear girl, you began as a liquid. Your mother could not unthink you.” -- Paula McLain, “Mercy” She drinks to get drunk to lose herself in my stone walls. Her voice echoes in my head while I tell her – Stop trying. Oh mother, stop resisting the phases of the moon. She writes my future on the steamy shower doors which I smear my face across, mumbling, Who are you if you are not me mixed with hospital gowns and nineteen Xanax? She cannot handle herself while intoxicated. She needs an arm to help her walk. She gets bleary- eyed and soul-conscious. In her blurred mind, our house is the castle she never built. I am a braided maiden stuck in a tower. She unlocks my door and drinks the vile beside my bed. I love you, she says, I think about you day and night but will not turn inside-out to release you. 11/25/2004 Visit Lisa Marie Brodsky's Library Intoxication Copyright © 2026

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