Lindsi Dailey

“On the line!”

is what my coach would yell

when it was time for conditioning.

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I’ve built a place

I can call home.

It’s my own palace,

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Sometimes I wonder,

sometimes I dream,

what it’d be like

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Joy—

something felt

when the moment

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I don’t have much range to move.

I eat what’s in front of me.

I wish I could grow up faster.

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Today was one I had been dreading.

My mom had convinced me to go to the haunted hayride with some friends.

I was terrified.

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like

to be a cat?

To have nine lives—

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I wore my black dress and grabbed an umbrella on my way out.

I drove in silence—

the sound sucked out of me by sadness.

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What you say or what you did,

can differ if you told a fib.

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I looked in the mirror —

it looked back at me.

But there was something different

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