Please enjoy today’s selection: “Before I Gained All This Weight” by Molly Fisk, which appears in Verse on the Vine Anthology:

Before I Gained All This Weight

I was so self-conscious I could barely
walk into town for fear people
would stare. I thought I was hideous,
unlovable. Now I want to shake
that poor girl, even though it wasn’t
her fault, so afraid to be human —
rattle her cage of good grades, selftanning
lotion and green eye-liner,
fast-acting depilatory cream, tell her
to smile for God’s sake and kiss
the next boy she sees, life is shorter
than anyone imagines. Silver planes
plummet from clean skies, cancer gnaws
the marrow of even younger bones
than yours, wake up! There’s still time!
Everything around you is unbelievably
beautiful.

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Wednesday, Oct 2, 2013
7:00-9:00 pm

Verse on the Vine Poetry Series

at

Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery
627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom)
Folsom, CA 95630

Verse on the Vine presents two very talented poets: Molly Fisk & Stanley Zumbiel. We invite you to step inside the art covered walls of Petra Vineyard Tasting Room, cool off with a chilled glass of chardonnay, and join us for an evening of poetry & humor.

And perhaps if you’re brave enough, share your own poetic voice at the open mic.

To learn more about our featured performers, we invite you to visit their prospective websites:

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