Another Session (between Prose and Poetry)

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Wilfred Yeats
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since 2000-08-04

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Wilmington, Delaware

0 posted 2000-10-07 11:37 PM

(If this creates interest - I could carry it to other sessions)

(From the Past- Slightly fictionalized)
My meetings - with peers - dealing with the effects of divorce, separation, loss of spouse
These were made available for a nominal fee through Parents Without Partners
(Names used are not real)

First Meeting - an introduction

There are six of us and a leader.
Two men, four women
Our leader is a lady named Ms. Love
I considered the irony

Mary introduces herself
She is 46, somewhat overweight
They had two children, now grown
He left her for another woman
Twenty years younger
She was totally surprised
She sued for divorce
Got the house
But is angry, alone, devastated.

Joan is 23, attractive
Her husband drank, beat her-
She found the strength to leave him
Is living in a shelter
With their two children 3 & 5
She can't understand why she still loves him
She is afraid
She is lost

John is 29, he is not unattractive
But is obviously insecure
(Has he always been
or is this the result of
His breakup?)
His wife walked out -
Called the next day
Said she didn't want to be married.
He seems more than devastated -
Totally confused
"Women don't do this!"?

Sue is 57, her husband was a doctor
He dropped dead.
She thought she was well off
But the assets don't seem to be there
The kids AND she are totally confused

Pat is 25, She was married, divorced
Has been living with a man
He has been beating her, and raping her
She fears for her three children
Feels she's stepped
From the frying pan to the fire

Me I'm a 46 year old male
I did the leaving - the divorcing
I felt I had to leave the Teen-agers
With their mother
A good mother - but I missed them
And didn't want them to blame themselves
Just understand
I felt like the best adjusted in the bunch.

Sunshine

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1 posted 2000-10-09 10:33 AM

"Everyone's circumstances are only great to them, as we will always be the most sane of all..."

yes, I've heard that somewhere...

I like this, and would be introduced to more sessions.

Martie

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2 posted 2000-10-09 05:28 PM

Interesting read, Bill...would be great if you could write a story for each, delving into their lives in more detail...just a thought.

Deranger
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since 2000-05-10

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Somewhere, between here and there

3 posted 2000-10-09 10:06 PM

Disturbing that over 50% of marriages end in spliting up...Maybe, but not surprising...in light of society's current downward spiral...Ah, deep thoughts! OUCH MY HEAD!

Yes, there is splendy irony in the name Ms. Love...more than meets the eye, for the title "Ms" denotes unmarried status...well...

My parents devoirced...the best thing that could have happened really for me...well, i'm still alive...*Busts out singing the Pearl Jam song "Alive"*

Anyway, nice wording, nicely skated the lines between poetry and prosse...

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Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

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Purgatorial Incarceration

4 posted 2000-10-10 03:18 PM

Interesting - I was feeling the impression of a High School reunion in a way... kind of like how you find out what so-and-so is doing now, etc. Interesting - reads like a cast of players.

Chris

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