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pamm hanson's avatar

fantastic. complete.

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Ann's avatar

Soooo gooood.

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Denise Wagner's avatar

So real. So relatable. I love yout Catholic-ish poems!

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Thank you. And the irony is that I wasn’t raised very Catholic at all.

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Mary Holscher's avatar

Oh wow, such a strong image!

nodding like a parakeet

for twenty-five minutes while he forked his porky wisdom

over that green leather desk blotter and she, good birdie,

took it, took it in, twice her weight in churchly sophistry.

And I love her moment of imagine assertion (of course, a Lucky Strike!) juxtoposed against the real life quiet assertion at the end. "Just because she could."

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

This has cinematic possibilities. Aside from that it's just frighteningly good.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Well, BOO! 🤣

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Cathy Wickham's avatar

Wow.

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