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nobody ever wins, nobody ever loses

by Sherrie Talgeri

and if i could                 myself in night, i would immerse fill up a bathtub with bruise-skied insomnia turn down the taps & drown in starwater in stars, submerged constellations tucked in the crooks of knees or elbows & water- fall- ing down a collar- bone naked as an x-ray, the universe is loud and swimming in my pupils i feel like God: so maybe i am, omniscient & wrapped in infinity; yeah, i could be God swaddled in the endless milky way with strip-lighting for skin & something that only smells like blood, that only tastes like pennies, is sprinting through my superior vena cava: a manufactured deity, yes, made because this has been the making of me but wait, though-- there was an ‘if’ at the beginning of that sentence-- i didn’t draw a bath i didn’t become God so: half-full half-empty not-jesus just-human i am nothing and then you say what you haven’t been saying this entire time: yeah, well, that could be anyone

About this poem

A winner of Foyle Young Poets of the year 2010.

Sherrie Talgeri

A winner of Foyle Young Poets of the year 2010, Sherrie Talgeri is also a winner of the Young Poets Network 'Univocal' and 'Like Starlings' poetry challenges.
Supported by Arts Council England

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