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My career is too big
April 17, 2020
POET-IN-RESIDENT AT RICE HOUSE
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA MAY, 1995
My career is too big
for my britches.
I'm really just a crying toddler,
and I'm asked here and there
to talk, read and give workshops.
So I put on adult clothes,
the shoulder pads so phoney
which only covers my toothless
six year old smile.
Under my sometimes adult cover
is a lot of old pain.
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