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Nature vs. Nurture (W/ Nanette Bellman)
by Anita MacShe is drowning in drinking water
and 3M designed love notes.
This is an oddity to co-workers
but for her,
it's just another day at the office
She is an easy girl to fall in love with
and hard as indifference to love.
She is the drink you never see coming,
but there you are, drunk and never keeping up.
She will love and hate you for a time,
and herself always.
But she won't be whisked away.
No, she won't let herself be forgotten.
You can try to rub her from her eyes,
Pretend your retinas aren't clouded
with her visions of what she has in store for you.
She is the leech, the blood thirsty vixen,
who's got you clinging to her
more than you think she's clinging to you.
Or maybe not;
at this stage role-reversal won't matter much.
She is good
and she is kind,
but her Nature is in constant battle
with the unwitting Nurture of her life.
And for this reason,
looking back,
you will forgive it all.
Tried and treason memories will vanish
like smoke rings dissipating in the atmosphere.
We are all temporary.
To everyone. To everything.
She's just temporarily insane. 08/12/2010 Author's Note: Much thanks to Nanette... I think we both already had this character in our heads waiting to spring out.
Posted on 08/13/2010
Copyright © 2024 Anita Mac
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Charlie Morgan on 08/13/10 at 11:48 AM ..Anita ...Nanette, you have penned a doll of a a pome; you lovingly lace the reader in one's alter ego[invented, mmmbut yet] feisty work ladies and when i saw you two paired-up to write one, naturely[no pun intended]great write! again.
honestly, i love this pome, the poem of my day today. hats off to yall. |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 08/13/10 at 01:13 PM Either way the two of you do some great work here. |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 08/13/10 at 02:34 PM This is a great write and there is much truth here in what is said. We too often go headlong into love never thinking if we are ahead or behind the one we are attracted to. I love it. |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 08/13/10 at 03:59 PM There are so many unexpected turns in this, all of them absolutely true and terrificly written.
You two are rockin' with this! |
| Posted by Laura Doom on 08/14/10 at 12:50 AM Interesting concept to play with, and credible characterization; more than than, there's a pageload of fertile phrasing here -- seriously wry stuff... |
| Posted by A. Paige White on 08/14/10 at 03:13 AM Please color in the lines (or better outside her lines)... this sketch makes my camera sigh... highest marks! |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 08/14/10 at 06:22 PM Good poetic reminder that we're all damaged goods in one sense or another. I especially like how you close off with the truth and wisdom of these lines: We are all temporary.
To everyone. To everything. She's just temporarily insane. Kudos to both of you!
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| Posted by Morgan D Hafele on 09/15/10 at 09:11 PM aren't we all temporarily insane? she sounds like the type i could go a little crazy for. =p when do i get to meet this girl? haha awesome write you two. (it only took me a month to get to reading this) |
| Posted by V. Blake on 11/11/10 at 05:21 AM You are the queen of collabs, Anita. This, like every other I have read, is brilliant. |
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