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@ellieissooverit

Poet | Photographer | Professional FBI agent | Freelance psychic | Dream girl

Cut Me or Kiss It Better

You were everything to me

But I was just a body to you

And when life gets tough

You’re the bad feeling I crawl back to

A piece of misery I can cling to

Memory of the only happy I had left

I just really hope you leave soon

So I can let go of my tears and quit holding my breath

You are a broken cog failing my machine

You stole my last puzzle piece

I thought it was my turn

You were supposed to keep me happy

You can’t keep lighting me & putting me out

Finish me to the filter or flick me to the ground

Don’t come knocking because you know I’m not around

I am no longer your prisoner.

Marilyn Monroe during a press party held at her home in Los Angeles, 1956 Photo by Earl Leaf.

A Dog Again

I have been treated like a dog.

Maybe it’s because I love like one.

Stay by your side, obey every command, not speak until spoken too.

Beg for boiled water on the stove

Anything, for anything.

I love like a dog.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been treated like one.

Scolded, left in the cold, hit on the nose.

It is all I am ever used to.

It is all I will ever be.

I am like a dog.

Loyal, Social, Playful, Loving.

But all you see me as is a bad dog.

Aggressive, Fearful, Loud.

It is all I am ever used to.

It is all I will ever be.

House

I don’t want to be the mom.

Constantly taking care

Will always be there

Even when I’ve exhausted myself.

I don’t want to be the dog.

Quiet, obedient

No bite and no bark

Serve only you.

I don’t want to be the child.

Naive, impatient.

Impulsive and immature

So small and unimportant in your shadow.

I don’t want to be the wife.

On hands and knees

Cooked and clean

Begging to be seen

I want to be the husband.

Kissed and fed.

Treated with respect.

Winner in the end.

Melva Cornell in a photo taken almost a century ago for the only film she ever appeared in: 𝑭𝒐𝒙'𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 1929. The film is lost, destroyed in the infamous 1937 vault fire. Cornell never made it in film & instead worked behind the scenes. She dies in 1960.

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