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A Study in Mascara
Mommy is short and thick with wide hips and a wider bosom, complemented by the way her hair cascades over her shoulders and frames her chest with dark curls both slick and wild. She has child eyes—because she is scarcely a grown-up, but I have yet to learn that—and laughs a lot, easy and loud. When I'm sad, she hugs me close and tells me that life isn't always fair but pain is important. She tells me when I'm angry to think with my head first but always trust my feelings. And most importantly, she wakes me up every morning with breakfast and tummy tickles.
In August, the trees are gold, and she paints them on her big canvases tha
Prose
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Devious Journal Entry
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Literature
Just Right
They called me The White Whale.
I dreamed of carving off my blubber,
perhaps learning to breathe
for minutes at a time
so I could sing,
because whales are elusive.
The ocean is vast. I could have lived
without another pinch, another poke, another
he only loves you for your tits. Get a tan,
go for a jog, are you gonna eat
or assimilate?
Their harpoons were steady.
They had no remorse, a close friend told me,
"I just want you to be healthy." She braided my hair,
complimented the color, my eyes a drizzle,
said there was a mermaid
hiding in my shape,
I started smoking the next day.
I used to pace from the cabinet
to the basement with armful
Poetry
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The other arts
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Miyoji: A Primer
The miyoji is a modern haiku form of which I've become particularly fond. While it's probably safe to say that I didn't actually invent it, it appears likely that I am responsible for naming and, if you will, codifying it and developing my own style upon its basic structure, and I've been asked to write a bit about it—a task I've gladly accepted in the hopes that others might try the form for themselves.
In simplest terms, a miyoji is a haiku consisting of the standard three lines arranged in a syllabic pattern of 3-4-2—hence its name. (In Japanese, miyoji is written as 三四二, which are simply the kanji symbols
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