What I Did With Your Junk mail

5/7/14

After months of staring At a reminder that you’re no longer here Unanswered pleas for you to use that key

and liberate me I carefully tore envelopes Setting aside what was significant to you.

I soaked the unessential In a bucket of water Then tore it with my bare hands. Placing it into a blender To be beat into a pulp.

In a vat I added flower petals, And tea leaves. A positive connotation Giving a new meaning To what had once been.

On beautiful paper I wrote heartfelt lines Filling the pages with the decline Of what I had once thought was true love.

-Riley Quinn Farmery

#art #poetry #junkmail #exes #breakups

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Background:

In art history I learned about the Combat Paper Project, a group that was created to help war veterans struggling with PTSD. Veterans would shred their uniforms, turn them into pulp and make paper out of them to be turned into art. They travel around the world showing their art.