A Third Person Study Of Myself

By Brooke Bailey

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Give me infamy
for being the crazy chick
that shoved Brooke Bailey’s
empty head into
a high power paper shredder
with a crossword puzzle
about foreign things
that she forgot to finish,
too ignorant to fill in boxes
swearing the only exports
from Jamaica
where Marley and hash,
neither being five letters.

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Brooke Bailey says the following about herself (but we know she’s lying): “I'm a double x-chromosomed geek-magnet with shy girl syndrome on a mission to shake things up with my writing and maybe score a few numbers in the process.”