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Poetry Reading: MY MIND IS AN ASYLUM, by Shannon Lynette

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    The morbid star
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    I am a night serpent
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    My mind is an asylum
    It was cursed the day
    The dead walked among the fire

    Ashes to ashes
    Ashes to ashes
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    My mom likes to say she gave me her tongue—
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    We drove for two hours
    to the badlands of Cleveland
    searching the streets and the alleys
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    to find a safe way
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