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_refugee_  ·  3015 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Writing With Refugee: Day 22

THE PERKS OF BEING A WITCH

  (a revision)

  It'd be a lie to say there are no benefits. 

So easy now to scratch regular inconveniences.

  Her bathroom's always spotless. she learned three chants,

to mop, and scrub, and dust, overnight. Yes, that fast.

  Her cats' claws never need clipping. And when she wants

a breeze to sing her into sleep it comes at once.

  She hasn't burned a meal in months. She never needs

to search for matches. And other benefits: she'd

  never spoke to birds and foxes, raccoons and

opossums, before. Never used a willow wand

  for more than chancy dowsing. A lot of life

has eased. But she hones her hunter's knife by hand,

daily.