april is poetry month #5

By godlikepoet April 4, 2024

no pride at all

death would like me better if I didn’t complain so much, if I didn’t punch back against every morning pulling itself up over the ridge dragging up the sun; death would like me better except that I’m fat and death does not like fatness; death would maybe love me if I were willing to be quiet, to swallow it all down instead of yelling, instead of acting up, instead of saying…

(contact me to hear the rest of poem–rebeccacookwriter@gmail.com)

Last updated on May 3, 2024

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Rebecca Cook lives in Chattanooga, TN. She grew up in North Georgia on a farm in Wood Station. She is a writer and visual artist, a writing teacher, an editor, and she has been known to preach in her local church, Grace Episcopal. She is a mom, a wife, and a homemaker/cook at present as she no longer works outside the home. She took her MA in English Literature (UTC), her MA in Rhetoric and Writing (UTC), and MFA in Creative Writing,--poetry, creative nonfiction, (Vermont College). She has published prose and poetry widely across the internet and in print magazines and journals.

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