they could cut off our fingers and toes
more easily. Maybe even cut out
our tongues. Snap a neck, invade
our brains. Diminish our bodies
with ongoing hateful clichés, ridicule,
ridiculous standards."
the beginning of Cook's poem, "Too Much or Not Enough", which is newly appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground!
read more by clicking the link below...
https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/05/13/too-much-or-not-enough-by-juliet-cook/
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Currently this is the first poem in a sequence of interconnected poems that Cook been working on for quite a while now, so I guess we shall see what happens with that. Maybe when it's finally semi-done, she may try to turn it into a chapbook length manuscript of sorts.
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