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Jenelle

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

4 poems·Since October 2013
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fall from grace

October 30, 2013

stand at the edg
                       e
                         -

and
look
d o w n -

people are tiny
a n d —
— inconsequential

but one (1)

"don’t Y O U
under s t a n d
me ?
if you D O N ’ T find me here ?
if you H A V E not the strength ?
if you cannot bear T O ?
if you cannot C A T C H me ?
if you do not see M E ?

i no longer have my - w i n g s -
I F i take the fall

I
alone (i)
shall cut the w—
                     ——i
                        ——n
                           ——d

N E V E R to return again
here i take—”

—my F A L L from grace !

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