ON TAKING DOWN MY FACEBOOK PAGE
by Lynnie Gobeille
facebook
was a blessing.
Sometimes
i felt "as if"
i was back in 7th grade,
seated on a metal chair....
during
"social dancing lessons"
sweating,
waiting
praying
to be picked
to dance
before
the teacher
could / would
pair me up
with the
OTHER
fat girl
in my class.
Lynnie Gobeille has published in The Sow's Ear Review, Crone’s Nest, The Avatar, The Prairie Home Companion, This I Believe (NPR), New Verse News, The Providence Journal (Poetic License) and The Naugatuck River Review. Editor of The Providence Journal Poetry Corner (South County Edition), her essays can be heard on NPR public radio. She is the co-founder of The Origami Poems Project, a state wide “free poetry event” based in Rhode Island. Her “micro chapbooks” can be found on their website: www.origamipoems.com.
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after reading Sherman Alexie's “The Facebook Sonnet,”
The New Yorker, May 16, 2011, p. 81.
SometimesThe New Yorker, May 16, 2011, p. 81.
was a blessing.
Sometimes
i felt "as if"
i was back in 7th grade,
seated on a metal chair....
during
"social dancing lessons"
sweating,
waiting
praying
to be picked
to dance
before
the teacher
could / would
pair me up
with the
OTHER
fat girl
in my class.
Lynnie Gobeille has published in The Sow's Ear Review, Crone’s Nest, The Avatar, The Prairie Home Companion, This I Believe (NPR), New Verse News, The Providence Journal (Poetic License) and The Naugatuck River Review. Editor of The Providence Journal Poetry Corner (South County Edition), her essays can be heard on NPR public radio. She is the co-founder of The Origami Poems Project, a state wide “free poetry event” based in Rhode Island. Her “micro chapbooks” can be found on their website: www.origamipoems.com.
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