I have been an amputee for about a year and a half now. Throughout this year and a half, I've met so many other amputees from all across this big planet and I've come to realize that the support from these amputees have been a heaven sent gift. It's like being apart of a huge family where everyone cares about your well being. We can all understand the ups and downs that comes with being an amputee. At first I was in that state of mind where I was asking myself, why did this happen to me. With th...
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Some Stones Hurt
I was ten years old
when I saw the Venus de Milo
posing on clean gray tile.
Shutter clicks were going off
like car alarms.
And I was ashamed of her stone.
Of the air where her arms
were destined to be.
I wondered why she had no scars.
If she hated the eyes --
their rabid dogs, their
pigeon-dropping cloying orbs.
I wanted to give her my clothes.
Pass her a bottle of glue.
“She’s broken,” I said to my aunt.
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Check this out, I went on a jet ski, the kind you gotta kneel or stand on, not the kind that got a seat on it. Anyway, I got on this thing thinking that it would be no problem to pull myself onto. Didn't take into account that my prosthetic might get caught on the edge. So i get out on the water and get going. Try to pull myself up, my socket gets caught on the edge no big deal, I try again, socket gets caught. At this time everyone is watching me so I say to myself that im getting on this thing...
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