By establishing his superiority
so you cannot refuse
you cannot think
but forced to like him as an obligation
He declares:
“I never said anything so irrational. Don’t palm all your abuses of language upon me.”
This is always the way with him!
And then he comes out with anything in the world
surprised as they returned asking
whether he seems very agreeable
He can’t imagine why you should object to it
Again,
changing the subject
thought they lived in the same country
(erasure poetry with Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin)
Tinamarie Cox
Tinamarie Cox lives in Arizona with her husband, two children, and rescue felines. Her written and visual work has appeared in a number of publications under various genres. She has two chapbooks with Bottlecap Press, Self-Destruction in Small Doses (2023), and, A Collection of Morning Hours (2024). Her debut full-length poetry collection, Through A Sea Laced With Midnight Hues, arrived with Nymeria Press in 2025. You can follow her on Instagram @tinamariethinkstoomuch, and find more of her work at: tinamariethinkstoomuch.weebly.com