Tag: life
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SECTIONED – Part 11: Conclusion
So we are coming to the end of our show, this next poem, I first recited in front of horrified staff and patients on the 7th and hopefully last time I was sectioned. 7 seems a good number, a lucky number. This time I was not angry at being in a ward as I desperately…
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SECTIONED – Part 4: Sectioned
I’d gone to my parent’s rural house after the arrest on the express promise they drive me home by 1pm the next day in time for a dear friend to come visit, take me to IKEA and hopefully finally release some of that sexual tension, for while my mind was clear I was still hella…
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SECTIONED – Part 3: Save the world
I didn’t want to weave a web I didn’t want to save the world I didn’t want to scream and shout Or turn my body inside out I wanted just the quiet life To have a job and be a wife To maybe have a kid or two And spend my life alone with Hugh…
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SECTIONED – Part 2: Dating profile
This story starts in 2016. I had recently split from my husband who I had loved since childhood, meeting at 4, parting at 8 and pining for, for 20 years till we were together again. Losing him emotionally to my best friend, a girl who, like him, enjoyed gardening and watching TV, two things I…
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