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Friday, August 3, 2012

Poem-A-Day: Thylias Moss, This Did Not Happen

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August 3, 2012

Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Thylias Moss. Used with permission of the author.

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    This Did Not Happen
    by Thylias Moss

    This did not happen



    although I have memories of it:
    a doctor unwrapping a tutu
    so I knew I was in a hospital
    but one unlike any other
    practicing strange medicine
    but this strangeness has been effective


    A hospital for dancers?




    I was in pink,
    sequined

    I had been in a street,
    an alley and

    I was left there, tutu shredded,
    I couldn't dance

    anymore.

    No animals other than myself, so the animal
    in me

    emerged



    but tried to hurt no one

    else.

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