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Amy Meredith Poehler /ˈpoʊlər/ (born September 16, 1971) is an American actress, comedienne, producer and writer. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she had a minor role in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is currently the lead of NBC's comedy Parks and Recreation. She has been nominated twice for both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance on Saturday Night Live, and for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in Parks & Recreation. For the latter series she also received a 2012 Golden Globe Award nomination.
Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Eileen Frances (née Milmore) and William Grinstead Poehler, both teachers. She is a distant cousin of author Stephen King and U.S. senator Scott Brown, through shared New England ancestry. Poehler was raised Catholic.
Unexpected cold
My skin and clothes soak
Submerged in fluid
Terrible panic I begin to choke
Garments cling heavily
The weight tires my weary frame
Shrieking, crying
No one hears my dying
Drowning, dreaming
Silently screaming
Thrashing I go down
Compressed body drowns
Suffocation, desperation
Dismally I cannot surface to breath
Intimate visions
Manically rush before my eyes
Can this surface be the climax
Of life before it dies
Struggling, failing