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Shadows & Dust [poetry]

Poetry

Most of my poetry is autobiographical. I write about living with bipolar disorder, dating, single parenting, my neo-pagan spiritual beliefs, my dreams, and sometimes popular folklore. Many of these pieces come from my self-published collections...

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Autobiography

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by Mizzieshizznell

by Mizzieshizznell

1978.

Condo life. Yellow kitchen.

Later, suburban home.

Musical bedrooms. From

blue walls to pink. Artwork

and collages for wallpaper.

Celebrity magazine shots.

Christian Slater impression.

Are you a Heather? Freaker

friends. Darkroom, lit mag,

newspaper. Do you know

what I mean? Maid to Order

play, post-Lucky Dollar.

National Lampoons Manic

Depressive Vacation. Don't

drive while psychotic. Panic.

Head in a fishbowl. Graduated.

Ran away to L.A. Again, the

threat of being disowned.

Almost walked away from

everyone. Chemical hijinks

in Green Bay. Another movie

theater blond babe and a

wannabe vampire. Dozen black

roses and poetry. Pregnancy.

Restraining order. Insanity.

Allura, lost and found. Nose to

grindstone, work and school.

Summer of K. 5 Years Later,

the wreckage. 2 more Jeffs.

Pregnancy scares. Hospitals.

Kiddo, from animal shelter to

retail, moving on to moving out.

Living through books and movies

and D&D. Alone a lot. Quarantine.

Catfish, players, basement dwellers.

NaNoWriMo. Hope to finish, soon.

Bangalore, India and Rowan University,

publishing. Dreams on brink of coming

true, but no one special. Cats and me.