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Why The Caged Girls Sing

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Why The Caged Girls Sing

by `TheSylverLining, Mar 25, 2010, 11:38:03 PM
Literature / Poetry / Transgressive / Free Verse

I. 

She sometimes thinks the voice in the back of her head is God telling her exactly what he wants.
That maybe she's on the hot line
Or the high wire a thousand feet above the crowd.
That she'll face damnation for listening to Kurt Cobain, or having her coat hangers out of order.
She is quiet and androgynous always
Except for the moments when she wants to crumple someone special up in her fists and crush him underneath her heel and scream that now he'll never hurt anyone ever again.

Catch her hand on the wall, a bit of her soul rubs off on it.
Scrape the invisible, ragged tear back into her skin and stroke it smooth, there, it never happened.


II. 

What, you thought sanity was something you could hang onto forever?

Or maybe you can. Maybe you can think of just one day from years ago or years from now and freeze it in a plaster cast
Or a dinner-table scene from the ruins of Pompeii, captured forever in smiles and words and cracking clay. Trace the lines in pins and twine and mark the moments on the wall.
You can imagine a hand might break the surface one day, and it's okay to just dream in your cocoon until it does.

In a perfect world, a thousand apologies and she'd break the surface herself. But a thousand paper cranes didn't spare a Japanese girl from a brutally quiet death of cancer.
Just remember, that other girl never finished.
Maybe she can make it to a thousand. 

III. 

She leans so far out the window she doesn't know what keeps her from falling. She closes her eyes and she sees with her hands. Sensation surrounds and reaches her in some frenzied synesthesia.
And she sees the wind between her fingers. She understands the thin plaster and the currents of traffic and monochrome lives and chemical burns.
The floor shudders under her, and holds.

IV. 

And then one day she learned to take the awful thoughts right out of her head and hold them in her hand in front of her.
Mock them to their faces and watch them shrivel up like dead leaves.
Throw them to the ground and grind them out under her shoe like a cigarette, and smile.
She learned to write love on her own arms, and leave trauma and despair gasping in the gutter.
She learned to break the surface on her own and take a breath.

V.

And she told me why the caged girls sing.

You've been on my mind.

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by `TheSylverLining, Apr 5, 2013, 11:50:36 AM
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But the love remains.

Most of my courses are online this semester, so hopefully I'll have some time for additional online fun, namely, being a little more active here again. I've drawn a lot, but haven't gotten a chance to update anything.

Commissions are still open, and I'm still alive (and happy and productive), I promise.

How have you all been? Tell me of your lives. It might inspire me to reply!

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