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VxPoem ID: 17697
Category:
personal_life
Posted: November 8th. 2005 4:16:11 PM
Views: 679 |
Seek Not
by Reverend Mia Backus
Age Group: Adult
The hills of Vermont provide a harsh lullaby.
I stand upon five generations of bones.
The others: crazy, dead, or gone.
I stand alone.
Seek no softness here. There is none.
“So?” I read Dante, Flaubert, Cervantes, and Voltaire.
“So what?” I speak English quite unlike my father.
I chopped wood, killed chickens,
shoveled sh*t and stripped shingles.
Seek no sweetness here. There is none.
No room for exotic perversities, this is an unforgiving land.
I mirror the stoic ancestry of the people who I am.
There is no room for weakness
in the teaching of my culture.
Seek no softness here. There is none.
Author's Location: Pickens, South Carolina
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