Uploaded October 2014 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
It is human to want to be both the victim and the victor, the one whose heart was broken as well as the one who decided they could do better. So I thought that's what I was celebrating in this poem. But an elderly lady named Miriam, to whom I will give a copy of this book today, made me think that my poems are cleverly worded excuses.
It is human to want to be both the victim and the victor, the one whose heart was broken as well as the one who decided they could do better. So I thought that's what I was celebrating in this poem. But an elderly lady named Miriam, to whom I will give a copy of this book today, made me think that my poems are cleverly worded excuses.
