diff --git a/writing/poetry/mental-health.html b/writing/poetry/mental-health.html index db7571596..f9ef9c37b 100644 --- a/writing/poetry/mental-health.html +++ b/writing/poetry/mental-health.html @@ -241,6 +241,52 @@ Failing that, Over circling birds? + +

Thanks to C.M.

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First-place winner of the Typewriter Emergencies Poetry Contest.In Eigengrau

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Beneath her coat was a whole identity: +A subtle form of ideas under soft fur, +A constantly shifting mass of meaning... +And somehow, she pulled it off. + +She would go for days without shedding a thing, +And then, as if a bottle rolling off a counter, +She would shatter, sending shards of self flying, +And then we'd all see. + +Then we'd all see the terror, the joy, +Then we'd all see the grief at nothing, +Then we'd all hear her say, +"I'm not built for a life with death in it." + +And slowly, she'd pick herself back up +And find a brand new way to piece herself together +And build herself a brand new smile +And brush out her coat once more.
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In Eigengrau

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Disvolvu mian haŭton el mia karno +Verŝu mian sangon el mi kiel vino +Prenu mian vivon, tenu ĝin sub via lango: + Amara pilolo por gustumi + +Bruligu min, entombigu min poste +Loku ŝtonon super kie mi kuŝas +Lasu tempo manĝi vian memorojn pri mi + Lasta peceto por gustumi + +----- + +Unwind my skin from my flesh. +Pour my blood from me like wine. +Take my life, hold it beneath your tongue: + A bitter pill to savor. + +Burn me, then entomb me. +Place a stone over where I lie. +Let time eat your memories of me: + A final morsel to savor.