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POETRY

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By Judith Cody

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The Montréal Review, December 2011

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"Lee Krasner's Pain" by Leslie Edeline Barton (oil on canvas, 24" x 18")

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TRIPLE YOUR TROUBLE

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"Study: Pain lasts long after traumatic injury," Archives of Surgery

 

Feeling pain is not great, agreed?

Feeling pain you feel when

 

someone you love cares means

you have to care that they care

 

that they can feel your pain

now you must feel them feeling

 

you feel your pain, this, an extra

feel bad strapped on your back

 

now you can add sorry, sorry

to your pack and a bit more worry, worry.

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TRUTH. ALL OF IT AT ONCE

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Its marble face stared

straight out at the

ever-changing multitudes,

an aura of impenetrable

magnificence clung to its

massive contours-

(bronze plaque beneath

the colossus reads, "Eternal

Perfection Right Here.")

 

Too big, no place for it anywhere

else, but everyone said that they

wanted all of it anyway.

 

After decades of cutting

chipping, blasting pieces off

Truth turned out to be more

fragile than it looked-

when it toppled over crashing

into brittle bits, each was

quickly seized. (Someone grumbled,

"Not so perfect after all.")

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Judith Cody, poet and composer, has won national poetry awards from Atlantic Monthly and Amelia magazines, as well as awards in music. She wrote the internationally notable biography of composer Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press) and Eight Frames Eight (poems). www.judithcody.com

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