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Tonight's Poet Corner: Obsessive

Obsessive by Belinda Roddie I understand that when you see spots, you imagine that they're endless polka dots stitched into a new silken white dress. I know that some people count scabs like constellations, view stains as Rorschach tests, finding both new daydreams and realities in the splotches forming calligraphy beside already existing cursive text, and I know that if you squint your eyes perfectly, the scribbles on a page can form an original language, especially when you're still at the proper age to challenge walls and ceilings. I'm aware that clutter, if organized in piles, can become skyscrapers rising into outer space, seeking out new planets constructed from the same rainbow neon debris. I shape each bruise and crack and broken spackle in the contours of my brain, rebuild the worlds that one part of my neurosis deems, in all capitals, "PERFECT." But then I upset your comfortable utopia, and I jam thumbtacks into photographs s

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