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featured poet – Anne Stewart

poem 2 from sequence The Last Parent:

Become Psychotic

At such a time, you must divide yourself
into separate parts.
 
One part is allowed to feel the loss.
The other must substitute clubs for hearts.
 
The one is permitted to fall apart.
The other must keep itself intact
 
and so must initiate divorce –
it is the other who will take charge,
 
will have no use for a weaker part.
The weaker part will tug along
 
on a slackening/tightening string.
The process will run its course.
 

Anne Stewart

in collection The Last Parent, April 2019, Second Light Publications,
ISBN 978-0-9927088-3-2;
first published in ARTEMISpoetry, Issue 15, November 2015

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