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What does she want to see with a bum like me for anyways?

Cissy White — Sat, 06 May 2017 14:17:09 +0000

What does she want to see a bum like me for anyway?” he said. “I can’t let her see me like this.” By this he meant greasy-haired. By this he meant a half-shaven, wearing a stained blue sweatshirt. By this he meant poor. Homeless. I don’t remember his name – if I just forgot it […]

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Death Address

Cissy White — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 02:26:50 +0000

For the first time in my life I know where my father is. I love having a dead dad. Death is an address he can’t change. In death, my father is no longer homeless, violent, alcholic and unwell. He is no longer wandering the streets. He’s not cold or hungry. He isn’t drunk and baking […]

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Forget-Me-Not Father

Cissy White — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:01:42 +0000

Later appeared in Elephant Journal “Want to support the Disabled Veterans?” she asked as I pushed my grocery cart by the table. “Why not?” I said. “Why not? That’s what they said,” she said, “when they enlisted. Thank God they did.” “Yeah…” I said as I stood digging around for a bill, hesitant and unwilling […]

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When Fear Bleeds into Bliss: Anxious Ones in Love

Cissy White — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:28:58 +0000

New love is the possibility of promise. Conversation, connection and co-created dreams. New love is the illusion of the right color paint which will prime and cover and freshen up a life. It can bring out charm and character hidden under drabness and shades left down too long. My love is the breeze, the night […]

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Another F’n Break-Up Poem

Cissy White — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:04:09 +0000

Honestly, I don’t feel like writing another f’n break-up poem but no one told my pen. Clearly, it is not yet done. My puppy just had surgery ten days ago and today she was freed from the cone around her neck. That cone was to protect her from ripping open her stitches before she was […]

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