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by Meghan Helmich

I was born with sense
enough to shatter the dreams
of even the most forgiving lovers.

Just a piecemeal woman
made of the ambitions, hopes, fears,
and imminent deaths

that belonged to unsuspecting faces,
now empty torsos and horrible
reaching hands.

11/18/2011

Posted on 11/18/2011
Copyright © 2024 Meghan Helmich

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Sal Haefling on 11/19/11 at 02:16 AM

oh lordy, i love you.

Posted by Laura Doom on 11/20/11 at 01:43 PM

I'm kind of overwhelmed by your prodigious output -- most days I find it difficult to speak, let alone write anything so lusciously macabre as this...

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