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run-on
by Ava Bluhope you’re having fun getting over
me
getting over you
while it all carries forward moves on looks back and says good luck to
the wicked dying rejects in a world disgraced by their own opinions and while they
carry baggage from generation to generation and you all lie
we all lie and
we don’t like to get caught and we need stimulation insulation from the cold
when it gets too hot we force down the cold showers and chew on a block of ice while
the children have fun sailing in the bathtub in the backyard that we turned into a pool
and they call it a pool they say they are swimming they ask if their friends can come play too
and we haven’t the heart to tell them it’s just a bathtub and no one will think it’s normal
because definitions matter they mean something otherwise we wouldn’t have them and we couldn’t
take our liberties away but we allow them to be stolen and we carry around a bag of knives
because you never know when you might need to kill the voice inside you is weak it is
smiling at a mistake and it is costing us every relationship ever started but your family
doesn’t want to see you on the streets but they aren’t willing to pick you up
you got yourself there now get yourself back because the truth she isn’t telling is
that they wanted you to fail and were waiting by the phone for you to say
goodbye to independence and do not pass go you will not be able to collect 200$ for
your troubles because you never paid the ante she was crying all day all night while some
one else was holding hands with every ex she ever had every person who thought she was
beautiful and her hair may be extra curly with a side of thick and white strands might be falling
out as we speak but she hasn’t heard her own voice in months and no one is wanting to call
a broken statue because the glue isn’t enough she wasn’t enough she didn’t smile the way
you wanted her to when the flash was on and the storm had passed between the ring in your
hand and the one on my finger because the beauty of saying no is in the way you say it
everyone knows that.
07/25/2010 Posted on 07/25/2010
Copyright © 2026 Ava Blu
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 07/26/10 at 01:10 PM I hope you're aware of just how staggering, horrifying and extraordinary as a poem. It's not enough that the imagery is absolute powerful from start to finish. It's also obviously the form you go with here. A lot of people try their hand at it, and it's usually because they're too lazy to create stanzas and momentum. That's not the case here. You put this format to work and never, ever let it fail you. Combine that with the imagery, and you have something that is just harrowing, brutal and exhausting. I really don't know what else to say. |
| Posted by Anita Mac on 07/26/10 at 10:26 PM I.Love.This. I agree w/ Gabe, the form totally works here, and I usually hate it, but not the case at the moment. You stream of consciousness leads to even more stunning phrase turning than usual. I will never read this enough. |
| Posted by Max Bouillet on 07/27/10 at 12:59 AM An emotional aftermath running through a flow of consciousness. How we constantly change the definition of who we are and what is normal often changes from second to second. This captures the process in mid-reaction. Great read. |
| Posted by Stephan Anstey on 08/06/10 at 02:25 PM YES. |
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