Flashback to my ex partner the philanderer.

…seless and ugly residue of youth,
 the complicated, harsh, and cursed beauty
 of the aging dancer,
 the tightening of flexible compassion
 into tight and rigid knots of jaundiced contempt.
 The only solace — we danced our grief wonderfully.
Love
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Theodore McDowell
Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Mar 25, 2024
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Flashback to my ex partner the philanderer. NOT a lovely memory but oh what a lovely ode to True love! Love with a deliberate capital L
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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