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Beebee commented on the post, cook 5 months, 2 weeks ago

She is cheerful in a miserable place
her cheeks are round in a friendly face and
she is warm and kind like ovens standing on iron legs

she holds you with her hands that have kneaded bread
needed you to tell her that you loved her
like the mother that you’ve never had

did you?
Beebee commented on the post, nourish 1 year, 1 month ago

Her mother’s breast millk
pouring into an open mouth
salty and sweet
pure

full of nutrients needed for a healthy mind to grow
and grow
and grow

until there is another mother
and another baby
nature […]
Beebee wrote about the word pouch 1 year, 8 months ago

I curl inside the warmth of you
hidden within the maternal fold
waiting for that one moment

when I shall see light for the first time
and take my first shaking steps
tasting air

and leaping in it
and bounding with newfound exertion.
Beebee wrote about the word insect 1 year, 8 months ago

It moves beneath your notice
underfoot

with little legs that move independently
though its mind is that of the hive

moving as one
merely one dancer in a single troupe.

To gather food
to kill its prey

they’re all the same
and yet

different.
Beebee wrote about the word ant 1 year, 8 months ago

It moves in hazy crazy lines with no pattern to them but the faintest scents and finds its way and winds its way to the sugar food it loves and carries the burden on its back to its queen not the queen it loves, but the queen its forced to serve beneath the iron will [...]
Beebee posted an update: 1 year, 10 months ago

For once she wishes for the monthly bleeding
seeing red behind her eyes in an explosion
fear is the price she pays for pleasure
seeing futures fade behind her eyes in fog
and dancing alone
blood between her legs.
Beebee wrote about the word skeleton 1 year, 10 months ago

A pile of bones not quite bleached still with the trappings of sinew and bone behind the white picket fence under the fertilized roses and orchids but not the wildflowers they don’t belong in the garden she was a wildflower too wild for this woman who stabbed her with a spade under the roses her [...]
Beebee wrote about the word ticket 1 year, 10 months ago

When I was young, my daddy would play
the Beatles music, soft and bouncy
like the sheets that were tents
under glow-in-the-dark sticker stars.

“She’s gotta ticket to ride
but she don’t care!”
they sang

and I didn’t understand,
not then.
Beebee wrote about the word ticket 1 year, 10 months ago

She grasped the slim piece of paper in her hand, worrying it between her fingers, twisting it. Her future was there – so close. Just one step and she’d be out of this cow town, to the city and lights and freedom and smog. She turned to him and buried her face in his shirt. [...]
Beebee wrote about the word sticks 1 year, 10 months ago

Sticks and stone may break my bones
but words will never hurt me

except they do.

They break your soul and crush it into dust
beneath the endless volley of rocks

stoning

and the abject horror of a person
left alone in the cold

defenseless.
Beebee wrote about the word cigarette 1 year, 10 months ago

Your breath
harsh with the smell of smoke
curls in tendrils through my lungs

and I hate that smell
and I’m scared of you
and though the scent unlocks memories of condominiums and easy chairs

I cannot like you for what you breathe.
Beebee wrote about the word etiquette 1 year, 10 months ago

One speaks in the first person
without pronouns

and one does not drop
the mask of perfection
not even for a moment

and never does one
kilt up one’s skirts, kick up one’s heels
and run through sunlit fields, hair flowing, skin glowing
in a thoroughly unladylike manner.
Beebee wrote about the word plague 1 year, 10 months ago

First, there was a cough. Then, a slight fever. Then the blueish cast to the skin, the greenish pus, and then the violent convulsions and bleeding from every orifice. Death was a blessing at that point, for if you survived, you did not live. You merely existed, wandering with unseeing eyes, unfeeling hands, and a [...]
Beebee wrote about the word expecting 1 year, 10 months ago

She stares at the small stick hoping and yet fearing. She knows what would happen if she placed it beneath her here, while he sleeps in the next bed after a night like many nights which is why she is here in the first place. She fears and yet she hopes and, thinking of painted [...]
Beebee and Katie are now friends 1 year, 10 months ago
Beebee wrote about the word maroon 1 year, 10 months ago

They say no man is an island and how right they are. The sailors had the right idea: they know all too well the need for contact the reaffirmation of existence and so when they, who were alone already abandoned to the wilds of storms and who knew the touch of lashes and the fear [...]
Beebee wrote about the word maroon 1 year, 10 months ago

A color
preferable to red

the garish sight of blood
the brightly painted lanterns.

Who wants to see that harsh color
so gaudy for such a scene

when maroon is a deeper, mature glow
with darkness in its passion
and moonlight in its shadows

no over-cheery cherry red here
just maroon.
Beebee wrote about the word stem 1 year, 10 months ago

It starts as a single line
and from that line
it branches:

a leaf
a lake
a lineage

each one from an origin
each one from the same root.
Beebee wrote about the word assisted 1 year, 10 months ago

He took me by the hand and with his hands he touched me. And though I do not love him nor did love him he helped me because he made me see that there was more to life than living separated by cloth and glass and let me love you love you more fully and [...]
Beebee wrote about the word honest 1 year, 10 months ago

If you want my honest opinion
the truth sucks.

Who wants to know their deepest flaws
their untold scars
their histories and their blood and tears
and have their soul

bared to the knife of daylight

that’s what the truth is

because lies are thin protection
against the cold of honesty.
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