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Out of Something Ugly is an award-winning book of poetry documenting the ramifications of child abuse and neglect on a person's psyche, along with the mind's inspiring, tireless ability to endure and survive. The content in this collection was written over a ten-year span, starting from the creator's adolescence and continuing into her
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Out of Something Ugly - Michaela Belmont
OUT OF
SOMETHING
UGLY
MICHAELA BELMONT
writing as margot nothing
Out of Something Ugly
Copyright © 2020, 2017 by Michaela Belmont, margot nothing.
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Second edition 2020.
ISBN: 978-0-9995726-2-7 (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-9995726-3-4 (Ebook)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017958990
Requests for permission or further information can be sent to
info@michaelabelmont.com.
Cover image used under license from Shutterstock.com
(artist Amanda Carden).
www.michaelabelmont.com.
Dedicated to Buddy the Cow Kitty.
I wish you were still here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Introduction
POETRY (52 TOTAL)
Jester of My Nightmares (Feb 2007)
As the Flowers Do (Jun 2007)
HELLBOUND (Jul 2007)
Gorge Crucial Thyme (2007)
Mistake (Sep 2007)
Revolting Lamentations (2007)
He Died Last Week (Oct 2007)
Gardwaffle (May 2008)
All the Days (Jul 2008)
Surviving Sacramento (Aug 2008)
Write it Out and It’s Yours Forever (2008)
tears and blood (2011)
Safe in the Dark (Apr 2016)
Together, Part 1: Rain (Jul 2016)
Reunited Brothers (Jul 2016)
Etched (Jul 2016)
Not Dead (Jul 2016)
Together, Part 2: Night (Jul 2016)
everything and nothing (Jul 2016)
Something Sacred (Aug 2016)
Daylight (Aug 2016)
Reaching Inside (Aug 2016)
Tepid (Aug 2016)
Small Spark in a Black Bog (Aug 2016)
Perpetual Autumn (Sep 2016)
The Day You Cried (Oct 2016)
This Went On Too Long (Oct 2016)
Beautiful Dark (Oct 2016)
Something Beautiful (Nov 2016)
Hold Onto It (Nov 2016)
The Tree Grows from the Root (Nov 2016)
My Baby Roscoe (Jan 2017)
Squirrels in the Road (Feb 2017)
BUDDY (Feb 2017)
The Temple Lies Empty (Mar 2017)
This empty grayscale place (Mar 2017)
Rip it Retch it Pull it OUT (Mar 2017)
The Sailor and the Serpent (Mar 2017)
The Old Dance (Jun 2017)
Heavy Melancholy (Jun 2017)
Blue Pieces and Blood Feeding: It Was So Long Ago (Jul 2017)
Disfigured (Jul 2017)
Owl Doesn’t Know How to Belong (Jul 2017)
Workshop (Aug 2017)
Raining Gray (Sep 2017)
Blasphemy (Sep 2017)
Water from Stone (Sep 2017)
Comfort (Sep 2017)
Giant (Oct 2017)
Freeze and Strangulation (Oct 2017)
Buddy’s Grove (Oct 2017)
Once (Oct 2017)
THE END
INTRODUCTION
For the second edition of this book one of my main goals was to include an introduction. This is because when I first published Out of Something Ugly I was too apprehensive to put my work into context, or indeed say anything about myself at all. It came very naturally to me to hide. This is also partially why I originally published this book under the name margot nothing. I was afraid of my life, feelings, and thoughts being subject to public scrutiny, and also afraid of what my father might do if he found out I had written about him. I therefore found it comforting and safe to hide behind an identity of being nothing and no one. Something small.
This book emerges from deep personal experience. I was abused by my father in just about every way fathomable until I was fourteen. My earliest memories are from when I was a toddler, and it was already happening then. Whenever I tried to tell anyone I was either not believed or not understood. I have also been sexually abused by other perpetrators and have been in my fair share of unhealthy friendships in the years since. Marked harmful effects of the abuse and accompanying neglect included low feelings of self-worth, anxiety, depression, and struggling to have faith in anyone or anything. It can be hard to believe in anything when your own parent does that to you. It also makes it hard to trust. Self-blame has been another big one - as a young child you cannot wrap your head around the concept of a parent doing that because they are damaged. At that age you can only internalize it as I must have done something wrong. He would not be