LIMBER

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LIMBER

You think I did this all on my own?
I must be pretty handy with a knife
To tear two gaps this deep.
Must be all those years of
non-existent training.
Because I swear I couldn't do this alone.
But you and your grudge
are not at fault here.
Do you not think that it's quite a stretch?
I must be pretty flexible.
Limber enough to reach.
Because I swear I couldn't do it to myself.
I'll take credit if that's what you need.
But just know I can't touch
The center of my back
where the hole was torn.

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altun commented on LIMBER

09-29-2009

almost like a hard-metal song. violent - vulnerable, deeply hurting, deeply felt. almost pleading to a father?mother?(authoritarian) figure that we all try to please - very freudian is how i read it. little-awkward in places, overall good effect.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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