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2002-11-25.3:31 p.m.


Heroics
Janet Bernichon


Just don't
stand there do
nothing shakes
my shoulders
over mother's
plastic mannequin
remains. The
45 year old
legacy of daughter
guilt passed
from 6 feet under
to earthbound
impotent heroes
like me
living in the eye
hollows of pain
so long I
feel it even
when it stops.



back /& forth /& frosting
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