Margaret Atwood Mouth Poems

  • 1.
    You're sad because you're sad.
    It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
    Go see a shrink or take a pill,
    or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
    ...
  • 2.
    This is a word we use to plug
    holes with. It's the right size for those warm
    blanks in speech, for those red heart-
    shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing
    ...
  • 3.
    My daughter plays on the floor
    with plastic letters,
    red, blue & hard yellow,
    learning how to spell,
    ...
  • 4.
    In the secular night you wander around
    alone in your house. It's two-thirty.
    Everyone has deserted you,
    or this is your story;
    ...
  • 5.
    He was the sort of man
    who wouldn't hurt a fly.
    Many flies are now alive
    while he is not.
    ...
Total 5 Mouth Poems by Margaret Atwood

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Body 12 Time 10 House 7 Head 6 Long 6 Light 6 Water 6 Remember 5 Mouth 5 Red 5

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Psalm 119 Part 10
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Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
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