Sample: What Will Kill Me
The following is a sample of a poem I recently read at the COPLAC Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. This material is copyrighted by myself as the author, and I reserve all rights to this material and the borrowing of this material for reproduction purposes. For inquiries, please email me at olivia.m.cyr@maine.edu "What Will Kill Me" I. Alcohol My father’s father bottled everything. French Canadian by blood and mean. We don’t talk about it—Daddy turned out alright. We don’t talk about it but it runs in the family, drips and branches down glass, then pools. My sister, me, our children, drenched in 80-proof. I am 19 and angry: The irritating, self-righteous, contradictory, indulgent voice in my head speaks when it is very seldom spoken to. I make every attempt to drown it. (What are you having tonight?) Plea