This poem has been published on this site before. However, because I have done some revisions (and it is NaPoWriMo, after all), I thought that I would post the revised version. The original version can be found here.
A note on the formatting — my WordPress is being difficult and not allowing proper spacing. Therefore, dashes denote stanza breaks, and as the astute reader will deduce, astericks merely separate the poem from my rambling.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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I am a write TRUST ME on my neck woman,
an arrange Sharpies in rainbow order woman.
I am a Double-Fudge Cookie Dough Blizzard woman.
I am a scalding showers woman.
—
I am a faux-leather spike belt,
sleep in jeans to save thirty seconds
in the morning, refuse to wear flip flops
(They’re not real shoes) woman.
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I am a spend-the-day-without-a-stitch-
of-makeup, intolerant-of-unchanged-
toilet-paper-rolls, laugh-when-people-die
in-movies woman.
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I am a try to tame the “bad boy,”
fall out of love with a single word, Do not
leave trash in my car unless you want to lose
an appendage woman.
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I am a treat my pets like humans (My
little sister got hit by a truck) woman.
I am a write out a bucket list — learn
to shoot a gun, drive a motorcycle,
fly a plane — woman.
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I am a white lies woman.
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What do you think, readers? Better? Worse? Don’t be shy — I can take it.
