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you don’t say
speaking of saying aloud
what we feel inside
brings tears to the grieving
the angry, the hopeless
and betrayed—agitation
that tears within us until
given opportunity to erupt
or—grant heaven!—to speak
two-and-a-half hour party
poem of family relationtionships
prime time family celebration
two generations only; the next is busy
with their own lives
but we find solace in each other
venting, informing, telling tales on each other
and on ourselves
admitting our vulnerability in laughter
but knowing we are heard