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admitting that your poems make no sense is a start.
typing really fast is a good, solid follow up move.
People react to abandonment in different ways.
Mary shut herself off from the rest of the world.
any
maternal instinct
she might still harbor she
knows she must protect
from the damage they will do
to get the drug they need.

Karl on the other hand, opened himself wide,
made himself a target,
took chances
with what he considered
a worthless life.
Everything he touched turned to shit.
There was no formality to the depths he would plunge.

most of it anyway

forgotten as they wheel her out onto the stage.
she will only be vaguely aware of who they are,
so many of these parties.
she
said it. you have your life.
knock on her door not six in the morning
missing shoes and teeth. wet
from god knows how.