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biography
by Angela Cotterman
you spit me out in a toilet
or tried to
and this is who I am
some human being
covered in the shit
of violence.
covered in the exhaustion
of surviving rape
and abuse that other children
were warned against.
while my father, slept.
07/10/2005 Posted on 07/10/2005
Copyright © 2025 Angela Cotterman
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Paganini Jones on 07/14/05 at 08:47 PM Tighten this up a little - edit out the superfluous words - and you would have one powerful piece of writing. As it stands it is pretty good, but you could so easily give it more edge I think. |
| Posted by Paganini Jones on 07/14/05 at 08:48 PM Great title, by the way. |
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