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ow could you do this to ured out that confessional poet-
us?" my mother asked. ry is a risky proposition.
My collection includes love po-
She was reading my first
published collection of po- ems, vendetta poems, my-heart-
etry, and wondering how many was-just-smashed-into-tiny-
lovers I've had, let alone written pieces poems, as well as collo-
quial monologues and free verse
about.
"I keep trying to figure out about my mother, father, three
who everyone is. Who is H.S.?" brothers and the rest of my crazy
"I didn't sleep with H.S.," I Jewish clan. There's "The Ghost
of Aunt Rose" about my
said.
aunt who returned
"Mazel toy," she said.
from the grave for her
"You missed one."
daughter's wedding.
This wasn't exactly
"How My Parents Met"
the conversation I ex-
tells the conflicting
pected when I sent my
stories of their first
mother my first poetry
encounter on the Low-
book, Internal Medicine,
er East Side when they
which was finally pub-
were teen-agers —
lished after 16 years of
Mom says it was at the
toil, sweat and psy-
SUSAN SHAPIRO
Henry Street Settle-
chotherapy. My fanta-
SPECIAL
ment, and she was
sy of my mother's
TO THE
wearing a pink
reaction was more
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sweater; Dad says it
along the lines of, "I al-
ways knew you were a genius. was at a basketball game at the
Now the rest of the world will Educational Alliance, and she
wore a dress with green buttons.
know, too."
"Grandpa's Account" chroni-
My father read my book and
said, "It's Shirley unleashed." cles the list my grandfather kept
He was referring to his late of everyone he knew who died._
raven-haired sister, who had The last year of his life, he
artistic potential she never re- walked around our house in
West Bloomfield, reciting it over
alized.
To me, "Shirley unleashed" and over like a mantra.
Of course they find it unset-
sounded like I was ranting
tling, uncomfortable and intru-
naked through the streets.
Then again, ever since Sylvia sive to see my version of their
Plath, Anne Sexton and Robert past in print. They grew up with
Lowell bared their souls and a '50s shtetl mentality — don't
confess anything or the Cossacks
offed themselves, everyone's fig-
will get you. I grew up with an
Susan Shapiro, a Bloomfield
`80s shrink mentality — dori'v\
Hills native, is a New York
suppress anything or your
City-based freelance writer and
demons will get you first.
author of Internal Medicine
Our first clash came when I
(IM Press).
enrolled at Roeper City and

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