notes on traveling (night party outside Toulouse)



Must remember bearded old men with accents
who touch too much and breathe too close
Insist:
     it’s okay sweet thing younggirl I am an artiste

when true artists maybe have no names / hear the aftertaste
difference between artiste and artist. not
just lovers of sunlight on a chair, heavy houses, dim
pianos and respectfully, people / maybe just

curious and lovely / willing to forego men who
touch too much and want the love of a girl
some any girl, exotic tall blond good, any.
just not wife, home mother or disenchanted, fresh
new open or familiar.
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Submitted on December 19, 2019

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 544
Words 98
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5

Malaika Thorne

Malaika Thorne began writing poetry before she was six years old. She is also a visual artist and playwright. Notes on Traveling is her third book of poems. more…

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