over a big ol' bowl of vegetable soup, i found the poem for the day. short and sweet and to the point... and damn brilliant, if i may say.
T: Karla Faye Tucker
Karla died a little death
each time her pickaxe fell.
All that coming made her deaf;
she'd killed and & her fill.
A Texas warden took her in
(the mug-shot turned out nice).
Karla Faye got born again
to give her life back twice.
-Jennifer Colin Scaife
these texts are an archive of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area from march 2007 - march 2015. it stands as a record of close to a decade of my life, charting the struggles i faced as an artist, daughter, and lover. messy and chaotic at times, eloquent and poetic at others, these texts are an index i am proud of. it was here in this electric box that i learned how to be honest about my experiences and the person i needed to become. it was here that i first learned the truism that words make the world and how to trust such a beautiful, rife, hard fact.
Apr 6, 2009
lunch break...
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2 comments:
Creepy and good.
:) she's a new poet to me but i think her work is just awesome. i found this poem in five finger's review.
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