Diet’s didn’t work, the weight lurked, ruled, oppressed. Overeaters Anonymous? You’ve got to be kidding. People sitting in a circle, reading, talking, chanting rituals. No diets, no reporting, no plans to follow. Just talk about insanity, some higher power, resentments, […]
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Perspective
Does he think nobody caresif he comes or doesn’t?Does he believe others too busyto want him there?Does he resent feeling an outsider?Can he come to understandhe’s the hole in the pictures,absence triggering recollectionof decades of a crater in lives?
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You! How could you!!!It’s bad enough when I’mthe bunt of your acts.You, so kind to strangers,so acerbic to me, how could youtreat her that way as my surrogate?Resentment roils. I want to wallow,to keen, to shriek.“Resentment is infinitely grave,”the book […]
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So what’s the truth? The witness swears to tell it, the whole of it, nothing but it, yet lawyers seldom allow whole truth, only censored truth. Say what you mean, mean what you say, don’t say it mean. That’s saying […]
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Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill Ready, set, go!If I have to hold my noseto swallow the medicine,let me really be ready —not just claim to be.Here I am, […]
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