id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
genesis-25442	Elaine, Georgey	Let Me Be	2021	1	.pdf	application/pdf	235	3	30	And I do not want to The hint of her veil was enough Smiling next to my father in an old photograph I used to look upon with wonder A dress worn to shackle herself to my father No, let me be your favorite shirt Wrinkled red, with the faded letters Your most worn bra Let me be wrinkled and stained Sent through countless wash cycles Let me be able to come back Let me be soft The fleece blanket draped over you I want to be a poem Something startling An image seared into minds, a pain in your chest Short, with meaning Let me be chai tea Deeply steeped, spiced with cardamom Felt in the throat Whipped cream on your lips A piece of home hot in your hands Let me be as I wish I could; something small but loved Elaine I don’t want to be white shoes Clean sneakers the high school boys are afraid to walk in I don’t want to be a decorative plate Locked behind glass where no one will ever scrape their fork over me Or chip me trying to put me in the cabinet Most of all, I would loathe to be a wedding dress Lacy white gauze worn once and hardly touched Special for a single day Before forgotten I’ve never seen my mother’s wedding dress	cache/genesis-25442.pdf	txt/genesis-25442.txt