All
I get unless they figure out how to extend life or stop time
Life
One under Mama and Daddy’s watchful, um, Thumb,
I
was Sissy and Cassy and Baby-Cakes
I
was Pentacostal Christian Saved
Spelling
Bee Champ Nerd, a Teacher’s Pet
And
Stephanie’s Best Friend
Life
Two the Terrible Teens
A
Skater and a Nerd and A Dork first
But
then I was Raymond’s Girl
A
Sinner and a Saint depending on the day
CASSARDA
when I couldn’t get my way
Now
my twenties:
I
have been Lower Class and Working Class too
Trailer
Trash and White Trash too
Both
the Petitioner and the Defendant at times
An
ex-girlfriend and an ex-wife
An
American Arizonan, Liberal, Leftist, Democratic, Pacifist
Agnostic
first, but also a Cynic and a Pragmatist
A
Single Mom and a Prodigal Daughter
A
Friend with Benefits, an Adultress
A
Puppet and a Slave: I’ve been a Princess and a Queen
A
Sister and a BFF and an Enemy
A
Lover and a Fighter, always a Writer
I’m
an Academic and a College Grad
A
Blue Collar Construction Worker Tradesman
I
have been somebody’s Baby and somebody’s Lady
(But
not lately)
Peeling
off all these layers of labels
And
gathering the ones I swept under the rug and the table
I
am glad to have loved and lived and become
Every
single one of them
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