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  01:22

  POETRY Reading: The Shape of Me, by J...

  POETRY Reading: The Shape of Me, by J...

  Performed by Val Cole

  POEM:

  36- 26 -36
  My measurements were an hour glass shape
  Before children
  After children
  Before menopause
  Before breast cancer

  Doctors scooped out cancer like ice cream
  a triple scoop, a banana split of tissue
  until I was left with divots
  valleys or hollows haunting me i...

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  01:49

  POETRY Reading: Graphite Grim Reaper,...

  POETRY Reading: Graphite Grim Reaper,...

  Performed by Val Cole

  POEM:

  Locked and loaded
  I’ve practiced with it before
  I know how to use it
  Tonight
  is the night
  there’s no going back
  all options exhausted
  my pencil a gun
  I press hard against my header
  of this blood red notepad page
  and pull the goddamn trigger

  But the lead breaks
  gun ...

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  01:19

  POETRY Reading: Humming Hymm, by Ace ...

  POETRY Reading: Humming Hymm, by Ace ...

  Performed by Val Cole

  POEM;

  Little fuzzy wuzzy buzzle bees,
  quietly working away unseen.
  Oh, how you sing amongst the trees.

  Pollinating plumage of Persephone,
  bring life to all through spring,
  Little fuzzy wuzzy buzzle bee.

  Sugar snaps and strawberries,
  every color of the spectrum seen.
  Oh,...