Each night once the kids are asleep
I rinse off the day’s muck with a cool shower
flip through a journal of poems
the television glaring over the spine
I love finding words I don’t know
Tragic words like suttee
Plural satis
Pronounces like sauté
A cruel similarity
A widow hurls herself on a funeral pyre
Suttee
America, bummer, death, desperate, desperation, discomfort, ease, fallout, happiness, home, hope, humans, love, messy, nature, our time, our town, peace, people, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, poets, power, punk rock, sadness, secrets, shit, small towns, suicide, symbols, the west, time, truth, voyeur, vulnerability, vulnerable, writing
About Me
A poet-chef living in Denver, Co. I use the orange Aquafresh toothpaste, off brand mouthwash, and those little floss picks.
Daniel E Haislet 
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