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WaveRunning

Cathryn Suites 1992 (San Antonio)

Free verse
You cannot maintain being ridiculously overweight without the calories to maintain that size.
You cannot lose time if you take your Xanax per the prescription.
You cannot rack a tab if you choose not to drink.
You cannot Excell if you cannot behave
You hoard your pain
Fly away

About this poem

When I think about how much we are consumed with self destruction when things go poorly. It's crazy. So this came up.

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Written on April 02, 2024

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Scheme ABCDEF
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 279
Words 52
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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Cathryn Suites

A spoiled child. Two older, successful people's creation. They were so proud of me, but did not set up a "then what." Basically I raised myself. I never needed anything. I never struggled. Not until I was an adult. I made all the mistakes we all do. You would too with the freedom I had. I wanted to learn, and I was so mischievous, leading me into some problems. All in all it is alright. I'm a mystery in a bottle I think. more…

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