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The Silver ChildFather bore me of the bellows
Woke me by night to beat me
Stroke by stroke
Drew a fire
Beat me
Turned me over
Beat again

And father told me I was incomplete

He took me outside
The wind didn't whistle like I thought it would
The birds didn't sing
No rain weeping a rat-a-tat rally
No crickets pulling their bows
Father bathed me
Father drowned me

And father told me I was the silver child

Father hammered out the dents
Lonely twangs belted against an angry anvil
Father sheathed me in gold
Pretended I was pure
The first son not to shatter
The first son not to be sold

And father told me I was complete
Pencil SkirtI am a pencil skirt –
A pinstriped business card on bronze stilettos.

I decline
1. The choker at my neck
2. Ribbons to dress my mane
3. Colored glass for my ears

In favor of
1. A bonus at my desk
2. Plaques to dress my wall
3. A trinket for my shipyard

I sleep beside the bleached bones of my suitors.
The radiator rattle protects my four-digit wages
From girlish distractions -
From famished sighs wrestled out by tired fingers.
It's Not You, It's Me
A date and time was scrawled in red and circled a hundred times.

January 5, 2013.
10:00 P.M.

Today was the day. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. It's a miracle I could even wait. By the time I finally returned to reality, my watch taunted me:
9:58 P.M.
9:59.
10:00. I held my breath and fingered a chip in the center of the face of my watch.
10:01.
10:02.

I felt someone behind me.

"You're late."

Although his watch, like mine, was lined with silver and sported cracks that spidered from a chip in the center, his displayed a different time.
"You were four years late," he announced. "That's how long it took you."
"So I did it. I inve

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This is NOT me or anyone I know. I snapped this picture at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2012.
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