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    Tonight
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    Tonight

    By Natalie J. Case

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    A collection of poetry from across a lifetime, Tonight is a journey through joy and pain, darkness and hope, profound desire and despair.


    In this thought-provoking anthology, Natalie J. Case delves deep into the human journey, and takes the reader along with her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNext Chapter
    Release dateFeb 24, 2022
    ISBN4867507075
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      Tonight - Natalie J. Case

      Dedication

      Words decorate my life. Music fills my soul.

      Where words and music marry, I find solace.

      So I dedicate this collection of poetry to the songwriters, the poets, and the musicians.

      You make my life a beautiful place to live.

      An Introduction

      Sometimes my head spins with words and they tumble out of my fingers and onto the page where I can poke at them until they end up in a pleasing configuration.

      My poetry has always tended toward the darker emotions, commentary on society, and adult relationships. That's what you will find here. Some of it rhymes, most of it doesn't. Some deal with alcohol and sex. Others are angry and raw. And there are a few that are just silly or that don't have a deep meaning, I just liked the way they sound.

      I was going to put them all into some order, categorized neatly into boxes where the poems all relate, but poetry is messy, raw, so I decided to just throw them all together in a way that I thought worked for me.

      I invite you to come wander through the magic of words with me.

      I'm Not Myself Tonight

      I got drunk again tonight

      and you know I don't drink

      thinking about you, and the bad times

      together don't we make an art out of war?

      and the way your tongue had

      of finding that spot

      no one else can do it like you

      I downed four rum-n-cokes in an hour's time

      fucking myself furiously against the pain

      like you used to

      smoking half a pack of Marlboro lights

      and I haven't smoked in years

      as I watched some stupid old movie

      with Ingrid Bergman in tears

      I wish I could cry like that

      without smudging my face

      I keep thinking I should stop thinking

      your face, your hands…your tongue

      but we both know you're a part of me

      my callous heart turns away from you

      like some orgasmic nightmare

      I should forget you

      stop touching myself

      and this bottle of Bacardi Gold taunting me

      dare me to walk away

      to succumb to your scandal, your seduction

      forgive me if I do

      I'm not myself tonight

      2 am

      I worried that I wasn't good enough

      that my mistakes

      were the cause

      of your failure

      I knew that I was crazy

      a little girl lost

      inside the raving lunacy

      of adolescence

      I thought I could

      fix it all

      by fixing

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