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“Not everything is a poem, Blythe,” my mother scoffs.
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I laugh because I am certain everything is a poem
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if you catch it in just the right light,
00:11
like a crystal.
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But sometimes writing feels like I am turning the ugly history
00:16
of my body into stone.
00:18
I freeze violent memories into cement statues in these poems
00:22
so they can no longer hurt me, they can only stare at me,
00:26
which isn’t as bad, I guess.
00:30
(applause)
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