Braced for the Pity

Let's workshop this poem about a man locked in adolescent emotionality in part, although the piece leaves this unsaid, from chronic marijuana use starting as a tween

May 17, 2023

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Braced for the Pity

Fifty but still stomping off 
to huff in a closet, punishing 
not his mom now but his wife 

whose refusals to check on him 
(even knock)—payback 
she might deliver with laughs

at the TV—result reliably
in him bruised from breaking
items, feeling awful for hours.

This piece is unpublished

Braced for the Pity

Let's workshop this poem about a man locked in adolescent emotionality in part, although the piece leaves this unsaid, from chronic marijuana use starting as a tween

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