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I Am(Defined)

Member since 2003 · Posted 27 May 2003 · 7 comments

I am... pigtails freckles my step father's toy, warnings, 'don't tell' hands on my body mouth on my face tears for a first love who didn't love me crinolines starched in circles holding poodle skirts wide swoons over Elvis at Heartbreak Hotel, We Like Ike and polio shots step father's stench, arms binding me down i'm big now... you can't get me again tumbles into love a dozen times, maybe more the world around me changing, as Joan Baez sings out, Diamonds and Rust and the Washington Wall wept, too many lives late riding roughened seas, boat battened down, facing the storms trembling inside rain on my face not turning back all of these things, none of them, either hungry and wanting, but at home in my skin, some ghosts still lingering some routed out hands in a fist arms opened wide defined

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[6] thepinkbunnyofdoom 27-May-03/5:58 PM Reply

Meh, I have a hard time relating each stanza to the others execept 1 and 4. -6- But only cause I see room for improvement.

[n/a] lil cindy lu who › thepinkbunnyofdoom 27-May-03/6:04 PM Reply

pink...I need to do some re-editing...at the time I wrote it, it made sense...now...i'm not so sure. I think I possibly got a little overcome with emotion...perhaps this one should go to the trash bin huh?

[n/a] lil cindy lu who › thepinkbunnyofdoom 27-May-03/6:05 PM Reply

well pink...i also see room for improvement. Got a little carried away on this one...perhaps it should go to the trash bin

[9] Jeremi B. Handrinos 27-May-03/7:51 PM Reply

Likable enough.

[5] Blue Magpie 27-May-03/8:34 PM Reply

I wouldn't go throughing things in the trash bin, the idea of defining yourself in a poem is OK, just work on it, some poems take a lot of reshaping you just have to keep at them.

[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 28-May-03/6:48 AM Reply

Are you saying that:

lil cindy lu who =df
any x which satisfies the predicate (
x has pigtails &
x has freckles &
there is some y and some z such that (
y is female &
y begat x &
z is male &
z is married to y &
~(z begat x) &
x is the toy of z &
z warns x 'don't tell' &
the hands of z are on the body of x &
the mouth of z is on the face of x)) &

there is some y such that (
x loved y &
for all z (
~(y=z) ->
(x loved z -> x loved z later than x loved y)) &
~(y loved x)) &
x has crinolines starched in circles holding poodle skirts wide &

for all y (
(y is Elvis at Heartbreak Hotel v
y is 'I Like Ike' v
y is polio shots) ->
x swoons over y) &

there is some y and some z such that (
y is female &
y begat x &
z is male &
z is married to y &
~(z begat x) &
x smells the stench of z &
the arms of z bind down x &
x is big now &
z cannot get x again) &

x tumbles into love, a dozen times, maybe more &
there is some y such that (
y is a world &
y is around x &
for all z (
(z is a world & z is around x) -> z=y) &
y is changing as Joan Baez sings out, Diamonds and Rust &
the Washington Wall wept, too many lives late) &

x is riding roughened seas &
the boat of x is battened down &
x is facing the storms &
x is trembling inside &
there is rain on the face of x &
~(x is turning back)

for all y
~there is some y such that (
y is hungry and wanting &
y is at home in the skin of x) &
there is some y and some z such that (
y is a ghost &
z is a ghost &
~(y=z) &
y still lingers &
z is routed out) &
x has hands in a fist &
x has arms opened wide)

[5] horus8 31-May-03/11:50 PM Reply