Dirty Secrets

By Theo Sable

Not averse to verse, Theo has been writing poetry since
childhood, through adolescence, into maturity and now
is finally published. A graduate of The High School of
Performing Arts (Drama major), CCNY (English major), and
Sarah Lawrence College (Master's in Theater), she embarked on
a teaching career at The College of White Plains and Fordham
University. After branching off into jewelry design, sculpture
and motherhood, she has come full circle to her first avenue of
expression with this volume, in hopes that it will strike a resonant
chord of recognition in the reader. She encourages bookings of
poetry readings, where her writing and performing skills combine
to enhance the experience and may be reached through her web
site, www.dirtysecretsbytheo.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479748389

Theo Sable

Theo Sable, her husband Jesse, and their two cats, live in Asheville, a multifaceted jewel of a city set in the mountains of North Carolina. She works and exhibits at The Odyssey, a clay studio and gallery in the River Arts District, studies at the Center for Creative Retirement, and participates in productions of The Reader's Theater. The family spends winters in Florida, where Theo is a member of the cooperative Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery in Lake Worth which shows her jewelry and sculptural ceramics, where Jesse plays poker, and the cats frolic on the balcony.

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Copyright © 2012 by Theo Sable.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2012921286

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4797-4837-2

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgment

Fame

PERSONAL

Memory

Life Story

Too Smart For My Own Good

The House is Small

What do you Want to be When you Grow Up?

No Place Like Home

Mother

The Cherry

Thespian

After the Divorce

Sculptor

I am Shrinking

Second Childhood

Flirt

CAT

I Am Cat

Ode to My Cat

Purring Poultice

Bandito

purrfection

RELATIONSHIPS

Ode to Friendship

Erstwhile lover

His Briefcase

Some things

With Friends Like These

Dirty Secrets

Scuttlebut

A Do-Over

Who Are These People?

I Can’t Be Cured By Courtesy

POLITICS AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Greed

Versailles

Excremental Increments

Carnivore’s Lament

The 99%

Too many tears for a tissue

was politics a dirty word

It’s a Boy!!!!!

A Handmaiden

Too High Strung

DEATH AND DECELERATION

Attachments and devices

In the Interval

Autumn

My health is failing with a big F

Bon Voyage

To Beloved Phil

Luncheon Manifesto

Extremities

Exalted as a malted

An Act of Faith

Doctor’s Appointment

Hussy

I Can’t Go Yet

When I Vanish

A LITTLE LEVITY

Writer’s Block

Every Passing Bug Wants to Give Me a Hug

He Was a Good Egg

There They Were

Pendule

Steinway

Confessions of a Thespian

Astaire and the Bear

Message from my Computer

Overdue

Whither do I Wither?

Adverse to Verse

Presumption

METAPHYSICAL MUSINGS

The Spider

Heaven is a Gated Community

If the Sky is Falling

Smiling

Assassins

Merciless Moon

She’s Gone

A Piece of Your Brain the Size of a Grain of Sand Contains One Hundred Thousand Neurons, Two Million Axons, and One Billion Synapses

Garbage

Of Course

Fatal Appointment With a Squirrel

Motherhood

False Profit

Philosophic Theosophy

Secular Humanists

TRUE LOVE

True Love

Shape Shifter

I Don’t Think So

Lost

Requiem

Dedication

For Jesse

Acknowledgment

I thank Mike Ross, a most gifted teacher at The North