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    Watch Your Mouth

    we weren’t allowed to curse
    so she never did it herself
    always setting the good example
    whenever we repeated words heard…
    that we were forbidden to utter…
    she’d softly remonstrate…
    “now now now…watch your mouth”
    but I learned very early
    she had an exception
    if pushed to full annoyance
    (a rare event – she…Read More

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    • In our house it was the threat of having our mouths washed with soap if we cursed. And it only took one mouth washing to guarantee obedience to this rule. Very cool poem for day 7 of poetry month Willow -Curt

      • I never had my mouth washed with soap but my sister did once. I was always too afraid of getting in trouble to put a toe across any lines. Thank you, Curt

    • My cousin told me to say a word in front of my mother, and I didn’t know what it meant and I got slapped. Never said that again. haha at least not to her.

      • My mother swore all the time – redheaded temper. But she yelled at us if we did. Grandma taught by quiet example. I’m a veritable sailor mouth now, but then? Nope! 😂

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    Backsliding into Hell

    inches to miles look how far we've fallen never perfect but better than this they're rewriting what they aren't erasing stacking the deck in their favor throw another log on the fire   some say he's crazy  and they're probably right but crazy can still be evil as...

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  • Backsliding into Hell

    inches to miles
    look how far we’ve fallen
    never perfect but better than this
    they’re rewriting what they aren’t erasing
    stacking the deck in their favor
    throw another log on the fire

    some say he’s crazy
    and they’re probably right
    but crazy can still be evil as well
    and nobody’s stopping his actions
    what does…Read More

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    • Willow, day 6 of poetry month and your words contain fire!!! I have extra matches in case they are needed. -Curt

    • ​”Your words feel like a cold wind. In my world, it rains when I’m sad, and I can feel the ‘inhumanity’ you’re talking about. If your world is burning, maybe my storm can help put out the flames. We’re both just trying to find some warmth in the dark.”

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    Leave a Message at the Tone...

    I can hear my phone buzzing  on the dresser across the room  like a fly...dogging my face it's distracting    as I give myself over ...in every possible sense... to his ferocious ministrations   his smoky eyes burning holes in my soul setting my nerve endings ablaze flickers spreading quickly a...

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  • Leave a Message at the Tone…

    I can hear my phone buzzing
    on the dresser across the room
    like a fly…dogging my face
    it’s distracting

    as I give myself over
    …in every possible sense…
    to his ferocious ministrations

    his smoky eyes burning holes in my soul
    setting my nerve endings ablaze
    flickers spreading quickly
    a…Read More

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