Welcome to OLDER THAN I LOOK, a memoir podcast from The Lizzy Co Show.
Episode 002.5: a short poem about knitting, envy, and growing up. (I used to watch my mother crafting on the couch, well aware that if I tried to get her attention she would be frustrated with me for breaking her focus.)
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Read along here:
Teach me that which steals your eyes from my face,
This thing that overrules my every earnest case.
What drug do your needles pour that I cannot overwhelm with my glowing teeth?
I could be the best cigarette, if only you’d let me.
A blade between your bones for all the times you bruised my skin,
A silence when you cry out for comfort.
Sky, be my own needle lancing lightning into those who strike me.
Green sneaks into the beds of the trees, damp and surprising.
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Theme song: “Controversy” by 40 Watt Hype
