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Poetry | April 2016

Alphabet for the Stay-at-Home Parent

By Jennifer O’Grady

An abacus arrived at abeyance.
Bobbled-headed. Bitter but bright.
Claustrophobic cacophony. Causing crushing.
Death-defying. Dyspepsia. Dustpan.
Easy exercise. Enormous errors.
Fossilization. Feeling fortunate. Fantasy.
Goddammit/gosh goodness. Gaffes galore.
Hate hamburgers, hate hot dogs. Hysterectomy.
Igloos. Idolatry. Identity crisis.
Juice. Jousting. Joy.
Karate kicks. Knackered.
Lapsing laughter. Lacking like.
Me. Mine. Mentholated.
No!
Opining. Obviously ordinary.
Polemical Pop Tarts.
Quiet!
Ridiculous rooster-rising. Rage.
Sorry, so sorry. Sitting. Sobbing. Silence.
Tremendous theater-of-the-trite.
Underneath umbrellas. Uneasy urges.
Virulent vigilance. Victorious vanishing.
Why?
Xylophone-pounding X-chromosome. X-rated (e)xpletives.
Yoked. Yielding. Yard. Yearning.
Zoo. Zoloft. Zanzibar. Zen. Zenith.

 

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