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Homesick

December 17, 2014
By AmazinGracey PLATINUM, Wilmington, Delaware
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To smell familiar linen
and a strawberry scented build-a bear
to hear the cars passing by
Swooshing sprays of slushy storm water
Mundanity I crave
But I'm too busy, in a lousy lime green gown
with the smell of Tide
and teeth that haven’t been brushed
Sighs being passed around the room
On a scale of one to ten
I'm a drowsy fourteen with too much Zofran
I stare at the tubes puncturing my skin
and finally know how my mother felt
to be homesick

© Andrea D., Owasso, OK

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