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Down A Rung

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I felt it;
The dissociation.
I’ve slipped blindly
Down a rung.
I don’t know why
Or
Who threw me down here—
What tipped the scales
Was it because I’m sickly?
Are you afraid I’ll drop
Dead
And you won’t get your money?
Are my thoughts too primitive?
Too grotesque?
Darlings,
It’s not my writing that’s obscene
It is the observations
I chose to write about
That offend you.
But
Every word is human—
Just the breed of human
You don’t
Recognize.
Slovenly, broken
Intoxicated, beat.
Beat
Because you beat us
And dropped us down
A rung.
I'm bitter because I didn't get into the writing program I wanted to get into. I don't know if it's because my writing is terrible or because my transcript from the last university were terrible (because I was sick and could not complete my classes, thus failing them). Maybe it's both reasons. Who knows. The said they explained their decision in an email. I didn't get any emails.
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