i'm all of the soft words i once owned

[musesfool]

I *heart* Dolly Parton.

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Today's poem:

Knife-play

All my scars are yours. We talk of pledges,
and holding out my hand I show
the faint burn on the palm and the hair-thin
razor-marks at wrist and elbow:

self-inflicted, yes; but your tokens---
made as distraction from a more
inaccessible pain than could have been
caused by cigarette or razor---

and these my

Comments

[troubleinchina]

That poem is very powerful.

[musesfool]

*nod nod*

[redbeardjim]

Dolly Parton is pure concentrated awesome. "I don't mind all the dumb blonde jokes, because I know I'm not dumb -- and I also know I'm not blonde."

[musesfool]

So true!