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Tenure
Contributed by
Suz
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Friday, 12th March 2004 @ 05:42:23 PM in AEST
Topic:
dedicatedpoems
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Might as well say it has been ten years
since we sat in the corner and quietly played
And, as children we understood with a simple language
As simple as a skeleton and we knew
when to be happy or not
And ten years later after you were gone
you said hello so of course I said hello back
And how are you you said and I said that I was great
in simple English because English is your second language
And you said you were wonderful but are you?
Because I am not great
hardly even good
Miserable, pathetic, self-loathing
And what are you? Perhaps you are a super model
but you are modest
Or maybe you were orphaned the year after you left
and you do not wish for sympathy
I understand.
Because how can you explain to me how your parents think you're a whore and how your little brother is absolutely perfect and you are loving your new ceramics class
When you do not speak my language?
Ten years has lead us to forget our language
that we spoke as hardly vocal children
knowing when to be happy or not
And in a letter I cannot tell you my emotion
so that you feel it
I cannot send you the essence of my tears
If I did would you read the label?
Could you understand in the Roman alphabet even how much I hate my English teacher and how much I love my friends?
Would I even know how vast your love can be
Vaster than mine? In the great Russia?
Ten years has taken away a skeleton-simple understanding between friends and given us pure, horrible etiquette.
Copyright ©
Suz
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2004-03-12 17:42:23] (Date/Time posted on
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Re: Tenure
(User Rating: 1 ) by ShadowDaughter on
Friday, 12th March 2004 @ 05:51:36 PM AEST (User
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Damn! Absolutely fantastic. Your best yet-- as in, ever. And I'm going to make mention of this one in the "special poems on this site" forum. This was amazing, and poignant, and painted a perfect picture --best I've seen of this-- of something that happens to so many of us, so often, and did you REALLY have to remind me, AGAIN, how much better a poet you are than me? :-P
with much love, Zanna,
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