If you had to pick,
what sense would you sacrifice?
Impossible choice.
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If you had to pick,
what sense would you sacrifice?
Impossible choice.
Tag Archives: pain
Substitution
Sometimes, the hunger
that compels you to eat a
cookie is sadness.
Protection
Soldiers wear helmets.
Women wear makeup, styled hair.
Our mode of defense.
Unbroken
The house of my heart
is white, clean, pure. No windows,
doors. No visitors.
Survivor – Family Holidays
Two tribes – In-laws and
Parents – force you to over-
eat, then watch TV.
Lori Drew rationalizes
“She hurt my daughter,
so I wanted to hurt her.
Can’t you understand?“
Flu – fire and ice
Fever like a sun
burn – every surface blazing –
yet chilled to the core.
Feeling fat
Going to New York
to be on TV. Need new
clothes. A tent would work.
Yearning
Why this ache, an itch
no hand can scratch, a splinter
no tweezer can pull?
Regret
A blowtorch melting
a block of ice from within,
pain made transparent.
a haiku a day 