All grown up<\/b><\/p>\n
When we were children
you would borrow my journal
and write love poems about other girls in the margins.
I said You should get your own
and you scoffed:
Journals are for needy people.<\/p>\n
That summer you set yourself on fire
and declared the people who looked at you
to be pathetic voyeurs.<\/p>\n
I smelled your burning flesh
and couldn’t help but smile:
finally, your actions trumped
your words.<\/p>\n
There are those of us
who take comfort in spreading
the shit and shame
we scoop from our own guts<\/p>\n
and those of us who would,
but feel a tug toward kindness instead.<\/p>\n
All grown up,
you’d like to claim yourself
among the latter, <\/p>\n
but the truth is
you’re still a child
scribbling furiously in the margins
of a book you say
you’re too smart to read,
because the lines
and all their implications
scare your soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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