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Brilliance

Grace Curtis

If I weren’t so brilliant I’d be dead
Out of sheer tenacity and ugliness
I thrive

I feel hostility I cannot even define
Or locate

I do all the wrong things: eat too much
Drink too much—scream—want too much
Talk too much

Wallow

There is no help for me

Hallelujah!
I work like a robot
Hallelujah!
Thank God I
Am brilliant

I am too stupid to quit

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