She Won't Cooperate

or I Want to Be the Girl With the Most Cake

Renee Smith

Renee Smith
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, Colbert's Nation
Birthday
July 20
Title
Your Highness
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Single mom of 2 grown daughters, writer, punk rocker & Green Day groupie; lover of sushi, memoirs, David Sedaris and Stephen Colbert. A lifelong native of Houston, I made a cross country move to Hollywood East beginning Act 2 of my life.I am currently at work on a screenplay and two books of essays. I have written a number of produced plays and am a contributor to Punk Globe. I'm a Grad School student at UNCW fulfilling my lifelong dream of advanced degrees and writing full-time. I am also a recently laid off high school teacher , but felt as Sylvia Plath did, that "teaching is dying a slow death in front of an audience." The education system is broken and I can't save it by being in it--but perhaps my words can help.

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Salon.com
JUNE 19, 2011 5:06PM

Act II

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Act II

 

What started with a life saver couldn't end with an e-mail

but instead, a small ring in the shape of a mouse

an obscure reference to a Russian novel

that is shining the light on their

future

 

In a room fraught with history of who they are and who they were

their separate childhoods intermingled

with words and limbs 

and Seinfeld and Maher and 

All Along the Watch Tower

 

Apologies, truth, and fear

Their history a calm still in the dark

North Carolina night 

Around them laughter rang, their hearts beat

the miracle of love.

 

A comic on the lam

A poet on the rise

Kindred spirits locked, 

words regardless. 

 

 

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poetry, poet, north carolina, comedian, love

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Sounds like a conversation from people over 40:)
BUT things I would love to discuss with everyone.:)
rated with hugs
Linda Seccaspina
June 19, 2011 06:25 PM
Thank you Linda... she's 23, he's 48..but age is irrelevant to kindred spirits, right? The heart wants what the heart wants.
Renee Smith
June 20, 2011 09:55 AM