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Starbreaker

from Digital Portfolio by Lee Todd Lacks

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This poem refers to my experience of living with significant vision and hearing deficits, and my compulsion to present like a typically-abled person.

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STARBREAKER

My left eye and my right ear,
monaural and monocular.
That's all I got, and
that's not enough.

I still go out, though
I can't seem to keep the
world from disappearing,
wear my hood up all the
way for fear of seeming lost.

Can't break down my Hoover cane since
the bungee cords snapped months ago,
like a misfit wizard's staff dispelling
specters of low mobility, harnessing
powers I shouldn't have to split
the ground beneath them.

In this closed circuit of a
neighborhood, all my relations
feel scripted for their protection.
They can never tell how much
I glean without hearing.

I'm a cautionary tale.

No one gets to know.

Don't ask me who they voted for.

Don't tell me there's a storm comin'.

Don't be afraid of the dark, love.

I know the way.

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from Digital Portfolio, released October 23, 2018

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