D.Meatrie

Joined November 2020

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Poet. Illusionist. Gypsy. Free Bird. Chef

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Between My Dead Fiance & Me....
I used to sit in my room and write when I was in college. I didn't feel like I belonged there. I was learning things that I was semi interested in but mostly, I wanted to learn the mechanics of music, the engineering and such. I was 5'3", 235-ish pounds, confused about what I should look like in my body and my favorite album at the time was Survivor by Destiny's Child. To get even more in depth, my song of choice was "The Story of Beauty" cause it touched on my own story of molestation back in the day. At the time, I felt lost, Mickey always told me I was wandering by design. I guess I have spent my entire life "wandering by design". I'm not sure if I have figured the design portion out but I have definietly been a wanderer. I met him in the courtyard one day while I was reading a book by Nietzsche. To be honest, I haven't read a book by Nietzsche in over a decade. We struck up a conversation that turned into many nights watching him and his friends have jam sessions. Mickey was a drummer. I have always loved a drummer. I'd bring my notebook and write poems to the sounds. It was the first time I learned that it is possible to have a flow without really having music. He always told me that I had the ability to catch a beat and later in life, I understood what all of that really meant.
By D.Meatrie5 years ago in Humans
Spaniel
"Spaniel" “Get a job…get a real one.” says the man to the female entrepreneur We’re back in the age where women obey When everything in this house was in my name before you even came
By D.Meatrie5 years ago in Poets
Present Day Madness
For those of you who do not know me, just know that I am a creative that is trying to make way for myself during all of this mania. I am a small business owner, I am a woman of color, I am a military veteran, I am a writer, I am a poet, I am.....insert something else cool and maybe interesting. At the top of this year, like most of us, I had a plan of attack. I was going to quit the corporate food job that I was currently working because it felt soul sucking, I had made plans to be able to do that transition in a way that was safe to me for me financially and then some things happened - the world as I knew it imploded on itself and I've been on this roller coaster ever since. It started with a series of wild events that prompted me to walk out of my job months before I was going to because I was sick of all of it and it felt like a toxic environment had just boiled over. Then I got crazy sick out of nowhere to the point that I thought I was going to die and I didn't know what this was and more importantly where any of it came from. It was 3 weeks of hell that started as what I thought was a UTI, then possibly a kidney infection, then landed on me shivering and shaking on the couch so hard that my teeth felt like they were going to crack upon sheer impact. I made it out of that though, on the otherside of a disease that is and has been killing people all year. Its terrifying.
By D.Meatrie5 years ago in Motivation
Homemakers' Ball
Outdated and overpriced Everything about this intermediate is outdated yet overpriced. Should’ve been honest Could never tell the truth about something that was going to expose you
By D.Meatrie5 years ago in Poets