Teetering
I shall lock myself up in my bunker
And tie myself down, restraints and gags
The stars and planets have aligned
I don't know how to say
I am in trouble today
Without people thinking it's the usual
I will lie here and seethe and suffer
Til I bleed and release
I will make myself ice
I shall not need hug nor kiss
Nor any kind words
And anything outside of this room
Will cease to matter
Until I can stand the sunshine again
About Me
- Janice Brabaw
- New York, New York
- Janice Brabaw is the author of Universe, Disturbed, her first collection of poetry that draws directly from her teenage and college journals when she suffered from debilitating depression. She is also the author of And Again: A Memoir of a Life Disordered which chronicles her struggles with depression and borderline personality disorder. And Again is slated to be released in 2009 and Universe, Disturbed is currently in it's second edition. Janice Brabaw lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She runs the literary & musical series, Stained Glass Confessional in Brooklyn and has read at The Bowery Poetry Club, Otto's Shrunken Head, The Cake Shop, and the Library Lounge series at Telephone Bar. Her work has appeared in Poesis, The Toronto Quarterly, Ophelia Street, The Record, and the Cartier Street Review. More information about Janice can be found at www.JaniceBrabaw.com
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