Marjorie, you bite your tongue off.
Marjorie, you eat while talking.
Marjorie, you sing like a caw.
Marjorie, you pray like a mantis.
Marjorie, you breathe like a brook.
Marjorie, you sleep like a cemetery.
Marjorie, you mourn a thousand graves.
Marjorie, you make love to a shadow.
Marjorie, you married a ghost.
Marjorie, you are in labor with a poem.
Marjorie, you live to 120.
Marjorie, you have no regrets.
Marjorie, I am your surrogate.

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Marjorie Sadin is a nationally published poet. She has five books of poems in print including a full length book, Vision of Lucha about struggle and survival, love, death, and family. Recently, Marjorie published a new chapbook, In the Closet. She lives and reads her poetry in the Washington DC area.