Wanda Swim Strunk Poems

We are two women
Nothing alike
Mother and daughter
In a constant fight
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Who stuck me in a snow globe
Who gave it a shake
I feel as lonely as a raindrop
Now frozen and a flake
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I find myself in familiar territory
Three days in
And I’m a slumlord again.
With my red hotels
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The sky and clouds in reverse
Looks like
Islands floating in the blue sea
Out for a drive
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She wears black velvet all year long
Always has her white boots on
I will let her tell me she is right
When I know she is wrong
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I am cluttered today by the cacophony that is life
My eyes powerless to focus on my work
Wandering to the periphery
The piles of paper and pens
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Words somersault toward my ears
On a serpentine chain
Causing a soul quake
Mistook for heart ache
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What if Edison
Had been on medicine
Instead of Obsessively Compulsively
Working Day and Night
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The sky is overcast and dreary
The temperature dropped 40 degrees
Like grey lint it's come to invade my lungs
I cant breathe and begin to cough
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I poison my body
Because
You poison my mind
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