morning twins.

08-16-2013, 10:22am

 

 

 

One can read the story of the dicephalus, conjoined twins

living well in Minnesota,

who share one body but two heads

but cooperate and smile, not because they have to.

And isn't it good to identify and then

know how tremendously strong you have

to be,

knowing,

what the world knows?

I could be friends with those girls.

Call them on the phone.

Play Facebook puzzles with them

late in the night.

Talk the acumen of poetry

until one of us three gives in

to Sexton and starts to feel

compassion for ourselves.

 

Knowing, first hand, the image of

a mothers affirmation. Their periods

will come, twice as hard.

 

And who could believe that having two

wills is the most acceptable way of living out a

female existence?

Eventually the doctor will perscribe you pills,

one will take up alcohol

longing for the rush of male approval

 

the other will just want to be touched,

spoken to softly,

their hair stroked, while

 

the other two of us

will just have to carry

on.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like how the male becomes two people in one also...

this is really heavy...the comforting start and then how one of the twins turns to drink...needing acceptance...they become so unlike each other...i think there are two sides to each of us...and we become the split personality within ourselves.

nicely done.

[K. Louis]

Their periods will come, twice as hard --- good read!

[Emily B]

i read about a nine yr old who hasn't grown or aged since birth . . . and i wonder and wail at my own perceived circumstances . . . how incredibly fortunate i must be