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November 5, 2014
By MoonBean PLATINUM, Lafayette, Colorado
MoonBean PLATINUM, Lafayette, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
"Be a girl with a mind, a woman with attitude, and a lady with class." ~Unknown


the honeyed hope

of maybe today they'll go away and leave

me in peace

 

is quickly replaced by

tight and tiny

rubber

bands-

how do they even stretch that far?-

and 

rubber that bites you back,

top to bottom; triangles or squares?

they ask

(not to you but the orthodontist, the 

evil mastermind behind your years of mouthly torture)

 

and they- the wolves in sheep's clothing-

give you promises of liberation

that will obviously be broken.

 

but

leaving the office,

a thought

trickles in-

the honeyed hope

of maybe next time...

 

I'll be free. 


The author's comments:

Inspired by the three years of braces torture I've had. 


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