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am I really extinct
Down in the Dirt (v122) (the Mar./Apr. 2014 Issue)




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I Pull the Srings

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A Bipolar Life

Janet Doggett

Buzzing to get out of my skin
Unzip it and find freedom
Knees first, climbing out, reaching
One arm then the other for something
Just beyond my grasp
Before the impending doom from behind
Catches up and snaps at my ankles

The clock’s second hand moves slower than possible
The black against white wall lulls you to sleep
where dreams are far more interesting than life
You awake. You close your eyes to block the light
that buzzes and buzzes and buzzes
So loudly in the recesses of your mind.
You hear the light and see the sound.
You move an inch per hour from the bed to the bath.
It’s too much trouble. No one can help. Nothing will help.
You are helpless.

I can fly, no really I can fly! I fly at night in my dreams and
Land on clouds when I sleep, which isn’t often because I’m busy
Creating great works of art and literature. My words come fast;
My thoughts even faster still. I am an artist. I can create anything.
I don’t need to sleep. I don’t need to eat.
My thoughts are clear and forward-thinking.
I feel like every TV heroine there ever was. Maybe I’ll get rich.
Maybe I’ll inherit the Earth. Maybe I’ll never die.
I am floating like a child floats upside down
and curled in a swimming pool.
Bubbles burst on the surface revealing
Laughter and sparks of pearly light.
Everything’s perfection.



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