Dharma Queens

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Nail-bitten girls
in chipped red polish
haunt old theaters,
watch cult movies
after midnight.

Their images flash
through the internet:
a dark curl, a knee showing
through shredded jeans,
those nails.

Fingers hold a tool,
a cookie, a petal, a pen.
Offscreen there's the
biker boy/girlfriend,
the drunk mom,
the scholarship,
the trauma.
It all shows in the nails.

In the dark
they sit in the old theaters
wondering
if this is a real broken heart.
 
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Wondering a bit, if you might have another title. Think big picture. I love this poem.
 

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Stew, thank you. I am utterly terrible at titles. :)
 

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C.bronco, thanks. :)

Stew, in the middle of the night I remembered I did have an alternate title so I have edited that.

:D
 

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Kyla, you're really good at this poetry thing. That's great.
 

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Thank you.

Regarding the title, the reason I rejected it originally was that I thought I would have to explain it.

Silly me.

:D
 

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Fantastic poem, Kyla. Perfect as is. You should write more of this stuff :)