Robin Bennett Poems

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101.
Pinky Swear

Like an uncertain and frightened child
over the seasons, I bloomed into a
determined and prickly bouquet
shallow dreams of popularity were mine
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102.
Craving Autumn

With this blazing summer in August
I for one have no sympathy for Demeter
in fact maybe Persephone should spend
more time with her father this year.
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103.
A Final Tattoo

That doctor always talking to his
dead patients, lying naked and
quiet on a metal bed.
A tell tale "Y" shaped scar marks
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104.
Doctor's Orders

The doctors in their starched and pressed
white coats run this unstable floor where
the mentally ill congregate. Not willingly
of course. Just a drift off course and
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105.
Good News, Bad News

My doctor walks in so green and sterile
asking if I want the good news
or the bad news first. For me,
can there really even be any good news?
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106.
Sooner Rather Than Later

In a windowless room
hiding from life
I revel in dark serenity
I'm joined by the chatter
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107.
Judgement Day

We walked on shards glass, a mass of ruins,
left behind when we split and crumbled.
Dying inside, caustic and bleeding poison,
distorted, painted cheer fooled no one that,
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108.
Common And Fragile

O' how increasingly fragile
I've become
Shattered depression glass
cuts deep into thin skin
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109.
Bitterly Cold

Coldness began to shave me like ice
grating against bitten flesh
seeking my refuge in a
melting southern igloo
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110.
Shades Of Rum

Dozens of cousins up early the morning after
mini bar maids handling watered down
fruity cocktails shaded by paper umbrellas
adorned with plastic mermaid swizzle sticks
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