June Stepansky Poems

Internal signals
help us
understand our needs.
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Cocoon-like
I am an entity
complete and secure,
but what is my identity
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I am more than
a member of a tribe.
I am more than
a member of a sex.
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He loved her for the curve
of her breast, her pretty smile.
Her chemistry responded
to his wanting her.
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I will not
let you define me
as I once did.
Seeing your love
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Belief is not truth.
Everyone believed
that the earth was flat
until Columbus
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When life deals me a lemon,
I make lemonade.

When friends fail me,
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Writers are the historians
of our failures.
Dickens showed us
English injustice and poverty.
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I am allergic to scallops.
Therapy will not help me.
Medication will not ameliorate it.
Many people can enjoy scallops,
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I talk.
You don’t listen.
You talk.
I don’t hear.
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