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My Drowning Home

Poetry Off the Shelf

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Then People Cannby Your Sweet Poem

"I find a little bit unsettling, because i don't have the accent naturally. I do it, ok, but it never feels authentic to me," she says. "It's one of those stories my mother just casually narrated to me as though it wasn't a big deal." Her grandfather used to disappear to dykesburg for long periods of time and would be found in a drunken spiral - sometimes for two weeks at a time. The poem is about domestic violence,. rights. 'No man could say his needs or tell him what hurt'

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