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I Stole a Teddy Bear From the Infant Department
by Elaine Body
I stole a teddy bear from the infant department
I tore it open and started eating the stuffing
A woman looked at me as if I was out of my mind
I was only trying to find my way back in time
I’ve been feeling of steel and metal
I wanted to remember how to feel soft
To go back when my heart was a boat
And not an un-made bed
Before my lungs knew how to breathe fire
I didn’t always know how to curse
There was a time without moments
Appropriate for the phrase fuck you
When my tongue ran more laps
With the girls in the magazines than loaded guns
The word phallic always reminded me of blood
Something in the way it bit my tongue
The first time I met up with one
But our courtship never last long
They didn’t suit me well
It was always an intrusion to my mouth
I found myself in her collar bone
And the way her eyes looked at me
I never felt more alive
I never needed to learn how to feel whole
Curled behind a body like mine
Yes.
I became a criminal
I stole a teddy bear from the infant department
I was only trying to find my way
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I Stole a Teddy Bear From the Infant Department
by Elaine Body
I stole a teddy bear from the infant department
I tore it open and started eating the stuffing
A woman looked at me as if I was out of my mind
I was only trying to find my way back in time
I’ve been feeling of steel and metal
I wanted to remember how to feel soft
To go back when my heart was a boat
And not an un-made bed
Before my lungs knew how to breathe fire
I didn’t always know how to curse
There was a time without moments
Appropriate for the phrase fuck you
When my tongue ran more laps
With the girls in the magazines than loaded guns
The word phallic always reminded me of blood
Something in the way it bit my tongue
The first time I met up with one
But our courtship never last long
They didn’t suit me well
It was always an intrusion to my mouth
I found myself in her collar bone
And the way her eyes looked at me
I never felt more alive
I never needed to learn how to feel whole
Curled behind a body like mine
Yes.
I became a criminal
I stole a teddy bear from the infant department
I was only trying to find my way
Back
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