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the labcat is the online life of labrys, smith college's art/literary magazine. we collect poems, prose, flash-fiction, letters, diary entries, essays, doodles, paintings, oils, sketches, photography, animation, videos, graphics, chicken-scratches, stippling, charcoal rubbing, pastels, collages, observations, music and whatever else inspires you. send it in bulky bundles to labrys@smith.edu.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

wye oak, civilian

i am nothing without pretend
i know my faults
can't live with them
i am nothing without a man
i know my thoughts
but i can't hide them

i still keep my baby teeth
in the bedside table with my jewelry
you still sleep in the bed with me
my jewelry, and my baby teeth

i don't need another friend
when most of them
i can barely keep up with them
perfectly able to hold my own hand
but i still can't kiss my own neck

i wanted to give you everything
but i still stand in awe of superficial things
i wanted to love you like
my mother's mother's mother did
civilian

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Presented to you by Becca O'Leary '13

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