“Achieving Grace”
As a little girl, with my younger sister
I sang, using my mother’s hair brush
in front of my grandmother’s chiffarobe mirror
we were gonna be stars
me and my sister, there in the
air conditioned room my grandfather
slept in at night
but we transformed it to become
our stage
now, at 58, having accomplished
a healing miracle
I line my eyes like Curt Cobain
dance around my apartment, playing air guitar
wearing my Zombie Tools tee shirt
and yes, today, though I’m not on the radio
today, I am the rock star I always
wanted to be.
James Stansberry aka Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid
James is a Seattle writer/cancer warrior/psychic/medium.
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