The Failing Waltzes
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Backtracking to past favorites. The
novel by Beatrix Strange, "Sir Ms.",
about a girl not much younger than I,
plunged into prostitution via her father.
Oh those days, in the makings of
devastation, when evil longed to be worse.

I remember being frightened, intrigued,
aroused, lonely. Those crisply chilled summer-
like nights in the fall, Benjamin Hyde crept up
behind me and fluidly sunk into my belly, humming
Miller's melodies in my ear. The coarse, deadened
grass on my knees, the hollow hum of his inching
release.

Aunt Mirium's engagement at 73, the hope it brought
to simple, humble heathens like Benjamin and I. The
sterile plate at Mother's house as she individually
placed peas at the center, 'Presentation is everything,
fuckers.' she'd whisper from her dark kitchen. She
never did turn on the lights.

The carousel at the carnival, with Judy, her mother
kept herself together, she didn't sew her children's private-
parts up and closed. Disorder. I grieved. No more needs
to be spilled on that matter.

My younger siblings with their hearts in their diapers,
even at 6. They should have been learning, like me. I
grew out of my dreams.

Not all are favorites of mine, certainly not of yours. Not
all are pleasant tales of seduction, torment, faith, and a
roast. I've learned to lie for smiles stranger than yours.

But all, reader, all things said and done here are true.
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need to read this a few more times jadie, on first site i enjoyed it and loved the 2nd verse, which i think needs an 'and' instead of an 'an'
will give some proper feedback this afternoon when i get some real free time.

i'd be lying if i said i could get a handle on it, not sure i need to. the snapshots on there own are excellent. the flow of the piece for me is faultless, it's internal rhythm
carries the reader along at just the right pace. i like the read of it immensely. though some of it seems dark i get more a feeling of thats how it was.
wish i good say more in the way of feedback jadie.

thanks for the read.
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