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Pledge (Free verse) by http://mulberryfairy
I pledge to withhold
information about my personal life
however therapeutic it might be (to me).
It might be harmful or boring to my audience.
I will bind my mouth, my fingers, my toes
to bar self disclosure from this civilized poem,
unless I believe that you will benefit
from hearing of my slow journey
through non-metaphorical pain and bad luck.
If my audience believe that some bit of therapy
slips into my poem like a well dressed prison fugitive,
I will refer adamantly to the fictive narrator
because âIâ and I are not synonymous.
We will never share the title, âIâ, again.
That whiff you thought was me
will dissolve into fiction, permanently
until there are no hints of âmeâ left
to confuse "my" dear audience.
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