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The Trouble with Getting Married

shelina denise chapman 1986 (norfolf, va)

The trouble with being married is that you give up your virginity
or so I've feared
my first kiss be on the Cross of Wisdom
my first kingdom being Sodom and Gomorrah
my first echo being an adromitive.

I wear a white dress revealed in white with the man of my dreams I am supposed to marry
an arrangement of (F)ate, perhaps? Maybe. If my gift were a dream, you'd surely be wearing it.
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Written on 2021

Submitted by shelina_s on March 15, 2023

Modified on May 04, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXXX AX
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 384
Words 76
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 2
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I am a scizhorprenic ever since I was only 19. I graduated from a high school called Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia in that same year. I have no friends except my desire to read and write creatively. Amious Mundus est! more…

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