Added July 20, 2015

How to succeed in heartbreak without really trying: First, do nothing. Become one with your couch.

Poem
How to Succeed in Heartbreak
Victoria Morgan
Released 2015 Poem
Older My earliest memories involve fire. I watched Watts, Detroit, and Atlanta burn on the evening news, I saw oceans of mangroves and palm fronds smolder in napalm as Cronkite spoke of lateral disarmament and a war that had lost its reason.
Newer Throughout the long summer before my mother's trial began, and then during those crisp days in the fall when her life was paraded publicly before the county—her character lynched, her wisdom impugned—I overheard much more than my parents realized, and I understood more than they would have liked.

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