Sometimes, life is hard
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(10-06-2022, 10:35 AM)brynmawr1 Wrote:  You can’t expect me to spend that 
            on a cat, teeth rotting.
She isn’t eating, can’t you fix her?
 
He bit a child, this happy go lucky
            two-year-old pitty.
Ten-day quarantine or decapitation,
            that’s state law.
The trick is to find the angles between
            the vertebrae
to sever the ligaments.
 
A piece of me goes to the lab
            for testing;

a fabric worn bare,
about to tear beyond stitching.


Is " pitty" a typo, or a bit of slang I just don't know?

Don't quite get connection between last line and the poem.

Third stanza is my favorite.  It could stand alone.
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Messages In This Thread
Sometimes, life is hard - by brynmawr1 - 10-06-2022, 10:35 AM
RE: Sometimes, life is hard - by TranquillityBase - 10-07-2022, 10:01 AM
RE: Sometimes, life is hard - by brynmawr1 - 10-07-2022, 11:21 PM
RE: Sometimes, life is hard - by TranquillityBase - 10-08-2022, 12:13 AM
RE: Sometimes, life is hard - by brynmawr1 - 10-08-2022, 02:50 AM
RE: Sometimes, life is hard - by TranquillityBase - 10-09-2022, 10:03 PM
RE: Sometimes, life is hard - by brynmawr1 - 10-10-2022, 02:49 AM
RE: Sometimes, life is hard - by TrevorConway - 11-02-2022, 05:52 PM
RE: Sometimes, life is hard - by brynmawr1 - 11-03-2022, 06:06 AM



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