{"id":460,"date":"2019-05-19T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=460"},"modified":"2019-05-25T01:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T01:46:50","slug":"everything-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/everything-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

everything broken<\/em> * by Brandon Hummons<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thick, black rimmed, broken glassed taped in the middle. The culmination of your stereotypes and I bent backwards to fit them because, because if I fit, then in some sense I was normal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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I am my own history simply because, I don\u2019t know any better.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dirty gutter puddles with broken lungs broken by broken glass, everything broken<\/em><\/strong>. I\u2019m just too young to understand.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"But I\u2019m everything I wanted to be when I was young, minus everything that got me here. Looking in the mirror not quite there<\/em>, yet not really here there, I\u2019m only ambition in addition to the world of men that wanted me to mirror his own image.<\/p>\n

I imagine what I would be without you. They say you wont amount to much without a father but… what if you have too many<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Too many push-ups, and not enough food perfect form with an obsolete score born of ill will, still waters stand still I am bad laughs of irritated infested blood but I am also love- I love the way hatred sounds<\/em> and I… sometimes feel I am the reason my fathers cold. I was their warmth.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I am their
\nDisappointment.
\nI will be their happiness.<\/p>\n

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All rights reserved<\/div>\n
(c) BRANDON HUMMONS<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/div>\n
From the Denison University production<\/div>\n
of I, Too, Sing America! (c) Dale Shields<\/em><\/div>\n
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