SADIE SAYS
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Cory Messler
Cory Messler has published prose and poetry in Rattle, In Posse Review, Cranky, Re)verb, StorySouth, Canopic Jar, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Mitochondria, Mars Hill Review, 13th Warrior Review, Pikeville Review, Arkansas Review, Stirring, Red River Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review. He chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition for 2003, and was recently published by Still Waters Press. Another chapbook, Dark on Purpose, is just out from Little Poem Press. By Cory Messler
Published on 02/23/2004
Sadie says: You're not
going out in that.
She says: I can't wait
to leave this hellhole.
She says: You children
will never learn...Goddamn you,
going out in that.
She says: I can't wait
to leave this hellhole.
She says: You children
will never learn...Goddamn you,
"You have a committee in your head telling you destructive things
and the chairperson of that committee is your mother." --a therapist
Sadie says: You're not
going out in that.
She says: I can't wait
to leave this hellhole.
She says: You children
will never learn...Goddamn you,
goddamn you, goddamn you!
And she says: I wish I'd
never been born.
She says: what do you
have to be sad about?
And: I love you like
angry death, my sons and
daughter, my
only hope.
Copyright © Cory Messler, 2005. All Rights Reserved.
and the chairperson of that committee is your mother." --a therapist
Sadie says: You're not
going out in that.
She says: I can't wait
to leave this hellhole.
She says: You children
will never learn...Goddamn you,
goddamn you, goddamn you!
And she says: I wish I'd
never been born.
She says: what do you
have to be sad about?
And: I love you like
angry death, my sons and
daughter, my
only hope.
Copyright © Cory Messler, 2005. All Rights Reserved.