A Heart Like Ringo Starr (Gravel Road Verse) by Linda Oatman High

Author:Linda Oatman High
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781622509683
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Published: 2015-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

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Ticking … Tocking

My name is Lexi

(rhymes with sexy)

McLeen, sixteen,

and this is what I

believe:

we are each

Teeny Little

Grief Machines …

ticking …

tocking …

bombs

programmed to explode …

if we have not

already

detonated.

01

Teeny Little Grief Machines My Entire Family Is a Disease Dad: Alcoholic. Depressive.

Borderline Personality Disorder.

Stepmom: Anorexic. Anger Issues. Bipolar.

The two of them together:

hoarders of cigarettes

and lottery tickets

that never win.

Blaine: Autistic. ADHD.

And me:

artistic.

That’s what they say anyway.

I paint

in shades

of blue.

02

Linda Oatman High

The poetry

is just so

I

don’t

explode.

03

Teeny Little Grief Machines Once I Carved H-A-T-E

on My Arm

With scissors.

Just the tip.

Skimming.

Slicing lightly.

A tiny silver nip

of skin.

They thought

I must be a

cutter,

but I wasn’t.

There was no knife.

I just

hated

my

life.

04

Linda Oatman High

It All Started

After we lost

the Baby.

It wasn’t our fault.

Carissa,

my little sister,

just died in her white crib in my bedroom

one night.

Peacefully, in her sleep, all tucked in, bundled, swaddled, surrounded by pink princess bumper pads and soft fuzzy blankets.

She wasn’t on her stomach.

I can still see her face, sweet, pink-cheeked,

eyes closed, baby butterflied eyelashes like tiny splayed paintbrushes wisping her face.

She wasn’t breathing. I checked for breath.

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