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9/30/2021 0 Comments

Poetry by Paige Frisone

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               ​Paulo César León Palacios CC




coping

dumbass bricks are punch-proof–no give

he gives her cold amounts of time–subzero
spends it on anything–everything else
                valet
                coffee (grande red eye–double cup)
                cocaine (that good-good)
                shoe buffers (shoes–buffer–the buffer-ers)
                alcohol (cousin tito’s–no friend of mine)
                pasta (al dente, of course)
                waiters
                that homeless man
                (days of) sleep
                that dog
                that other dog
                cocaine (that bad-good)

wonder if i got it from him
loving wrong people–things–wrong times–ways
                diversions 

                haul bricks upwards | upchuck | literal spit-fire

                shovel bricks–digging goddamn holes to re-route lives 

talks to himself
hums–loud–unapologetic yells–(desperate) how he 
wakes up laughing about dreams he has
the other world in which he lives where (dig dig dig)
he’s the most loving man–happily married but
    
                HEAVE | heavy heavy | gravel to grave | puke as mortar | stick |

wakes up to the same bricks–piles–over & over 
same holes–wells–welts–deeper–deeper – 

to know it is beyond over–over & over & you are the gravedigger           still digging
                that’s the part i could never–ever do

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​Projector: (n). a thing that projects, a project, a person, an object

people work hard to
be nothing
empty, blank canvases
“inspired”
take marker
stand on stool
wait for people
become

                                                                               sick up here
                                                                                       here
                                                                                  ugly here
                                                                                      fat fat
                                                                                      fat fat
                                                                                      fat fat
                                                                                      fat fat
                                                                             spinal fluid fat
                                                              |make way         for thigh gap|
                                                                            too this, too that
                                                                                     inferior
                                                                         fe-fi-foe-faux-male

                                                                                                                          fat backbone is straight up muscle
                                                                                                                                                                                      idiots
                                                                                                                                                                   how dare they

                                                                                                                                                    that is not a person, a
                                                                                                                               wine cork maybe, in which case,
                                                                                                                                                                                        cool

                                                                                                                                   words can make you anything
                                                                                                                                                               an hourglass for
                                                                                                                                                                suicides coming
                                                                 she's a pear-type, they figure, (ha)
                                                                                       or an apple
                                                                           no longer safe foods so,

                                                                                               why do they say don't cut yourself off at the knees
                                                                                                                   if that's exactly what they wish for us?


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Paige is a Certified LifeLine® Practitioner, psychosomatic writing coach, and poet living in Colorado. Her work explores the visceral complexities of an eating disorder and the ever-present journey of inhabiting a body. Paige has been featured in Rebelle Society, Elephant Journal, Entropy's Enclave, Rogue Agent, streetcake magazine, Metapsychosis, indicia, The Health Journal, and elsewhere. She can be found at www.paigefrisone.com.

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