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Departure from Normal
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His love is torture for the bones




He wants to keep me on a leash
Stuffed inside a dog pound with his exes
He says I’m a wild card who needs to be tamed
A generic Beyonce who needs to Parallel Park with
His 5 kids at his trailer home
He wants to taste depression in my eyes
Not progress
No recess
Just stress
While I force-feed his kids my 36 C’s
I agreed to let him in all the way
Making him feel like a king
Giving me orders on a Cingular phone
Unlimited calls daily
No recess
Just stress
No progress
No time to write thoughts on paper
My paycheck he snatches away to treat his kids to McDonalds’
Yes, you are beautiful, he utters only on payday
He promises marriage without his last name
Will give a platinum ring only if I add his kids to my 401K
And let people know all 5 are mine I had them while I was in rehab
I should say
He orders me to switch my dial-up heart for a wireless one
To leap at the sound of his voice
feel his electric slide
When he robs my cunt like a quick crossover puzzle
He crushes my spine with laughter
Pollutes sarcasm to the air
Prefers to watch me cry on bone-marrow paper
Speechless
Wordless without a lease on love
Without a contract
Internally I bleed
I deserve no one better
©9/2006 by C. Delaleu








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 Reviews of "Departure from Normal"
Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on September 23, 2007
yes, indeed a powerful and emotionally stimulating account of a dysfunctional relationship ... your imagery probes, quite effectively, into an unbalanced torment due to a overwhelming sense of insensitivity and apathy ... yet, it seems there is a acceptance or acquiescence to the situation which seems to be typical of emotional abuse ...

"When he robs my cunt like a quick crossover puzzle
He crushes my spine with laughter" ... very interesting imagery ... overall, a very effective poem ...

Reviewed by Brian Pellerino
Reviewed on September 22, 2007
Cathy,

This is raw, poignant and fascinating. I love the line: "He wants to taste depression in my eyes". That is plain soulfire. If this is autobiographical, that is a sorrow, but you know pain and pathos like only a poet does and you write them like only a lover would....

B

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on September 22, 2007
Powerful dramatic poetry at its best, I think it is time the subject dumped the loser but the writing is fantastic to raise such anger and perhaps pity at this lady who gives do much fro so little in return.

Fee


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