Minnie Gehrig Poems

Sweet poets,
I find myself enamoured
I am nude
wrapped only in the pages
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walking up the long winding stairs,
The sun is blazing hot,
and i am feverish with the warmth of it,
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Why is Eve the first evil in the world?
Who but women tempt the Devil so?
Certainly men do not,
For they are riotose in heart and step,
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the sickness is eating me,
From within the macbre mouth
sucks me dry
until there is no body saveable,
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empty spaces,
the clock is ticking,
I am not so young anymore as
to turn the heads of pretty boys who
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I cannot lie here under the bridge of my tresspasses
Wrapped in guilt,
As you would have me,
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You and me
whos to understand
The locked combat of the poet and the philosopher
Who agree only that there are things that exist that have no disernable substance,
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we are in the kitchen,
Me with gritted teeth chain smoking,
Waiting for the string of unanswerable questions i know lie behind those troubled eyes
They are so dark with grief and fear that they are black and your brown skin is paling beneth them,
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I couldnt believe you stood that day,
Drinking whiskey with my babys daddy,
and all the drama and tears of flesh
as I kept him off me like ripping off a bandaid
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I crawl to you on bended and bruised knees
holding out to you
in bloodied fists
my drunken apoligies,
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