Rituals: At Thanksgiving Day

Happy Forgiving Day

distant kin

eat hearts out

Sudden death play-offs

tackle tribe rivalries

siblings ledger scores

Discard all leftovers

 

 

Tweeted on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 11:07 p.m. CT

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First Born

Anointed

blue ribbon shrine

pristine shoes

Daddy toe waltzes

bedroom sanctum

car keys

genetic guilt

default executor

Last shovelful of dirt

 

Tweeted on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. CT

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Scapegoat

Most innocent

We cast upon U

our locker room Christ

our smug sins

greed, envy, gossip

clique rituals

so we can worship God

in the mirror

 

 

Tweeted Wednesday, August 8, 2010 at  5:12 p.m. CDT

© 2012 by Audrey S. Rivers and Poetweetry

Reunion

Spare me banalities

of bald jocks,

prom queen’s cancer

rich geeks, suicides

All & nothing mends

Old photos con

My name tag reads Anonymous

Tweeted on July 29, 2010 at 5:34 p.m.

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Bequest

Built UR kitsch dream house

No one allowed on gold carpet

kids & pets confined 2 cellar

30yrs later in hospice

alone in shag carpet reverie

Tweeted on July 12, 2010 at 2:19 a.m.

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Family Secrets

Tell no family secrets

cancers, Zoloft

our posh facade’s 2 liens

Play Harlequin

Wear zirconia,

nibble tartar

& save  $$  4 marble crypt

Tweeted July 9, 2010 at 9:07 p.m.

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Family Portrait

No mantle photos

or attic scrapbooks

No sepia-tinged memories

Only vague strangers

w[ith] cracked smiles

& recriminations

Tweeted: August 21, 2009

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Mother

My childhood vexed your dreams

Poems not proms

pets not paramours

Weird daughter disgraced womb

Caretaker never giver

luv priced too high

Tweeted:  May 10, 2009

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