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May 16, 2025  

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Placing the blame into the right category

Hate me because I’m beautiful
Or because I can burn the garlic bread
Better then anyone
Until the flames
Are reflected in the green flecks
Of each of my perfect eyes

Hate me because I’m brilliant
Or because I ate the last slice
Of decadent chocolate cheesecake
With a buttery graham crust
And the crumbs have fallen
Onto my sparkling floor

Don’t hate me because
I just happened
To love him first

1- Tracey on May 4 2007

Ah, new rules by which to play the envy game, eh? I like the way you approach this topic head on listing all kinds of things the person being addressed should and could be jealous about. It turns the situation inside-out, underlies the speaker's confidence,  and sets the reader up in a perspective that makes the last stanza a real BLAM hit.

A thought provoking poem from an original point of view.

Go, Shanny!



 
Shannon McEwen

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on May 4 2007
from Canada

Sharp like a wet noodle
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