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My Mom Said to Me

September 17, 2019
By thiennha BRONZE, Los Altos, California
thiennha BRONZE, Los Altos, California
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she thinks I stink of unearned sweat because 


I swim in homicide and trash and 

dream of stars. 

I breathe carbon dioxide and drink the flames.


she thinks

I’ll do whatever it takes

to not sweat tonight


I’ll kiss a cloud

and lick the earth


I’ll rest my breath

and wander my mind

I will not sweat tonight


I’ll find a church

and pick my skin


I’ll wear the black 

and think work a sin

I will not sweat tonight


I’ll blow a bubble

and float in wine


I’ll spin and sing

and touch the gold

I will not sweat tonight

 


And I do not sweat tonight

I’ll trip and fly

and tame my tongue


Yet


she doesn’t dance with me

and I choke 

on the low clouds of doubt

and cannabis


don’t want to prove I have legs by breaking them

don’t want

my fingers to bleed, when I play 

my music. 

don’t want


to drown


when laughter grows louder, tears fall heavier, 

loud and heavy as

thunder and rain


in rainfall she swims

I bob, I float, I bow

or I drown


or all my poems unpoem themselves


The author's comments:

again, I could not see the images below so I randomly selected one


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