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RIP to me
All I can do is sit
and watch
and wait
as they purchase me
as I am loaded into the back of a car
as I am unloaded from the car
as I am brought into their house
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Continuing forward
It holds me
keeps me at the right temperature as long as it's between 50-70 degrees outside.
It embraces me
I can be myself in it
I don't have to hide as much
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Keep going
It's hard being back
no, it's worse than hard
impossible
to be around them
to be surrounded by people who hate you for finding yourself
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Character Connections
Prompt for 2025-26 challenges:
Character connections: In poetry or prose, write about a connection - whether positive, negative, or neutral - between two characters or yourself and a character.
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Drowning in the unknown
I am tormented by slight movements
even silence is hurting me
reality seems to be strobing
or something like it -
I've yet to learn how to explain these moments to others,
even myself.
It's not normal,
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Anticipation
This is the worst kind of anticipation
this anticipation isn't just fear of what is to come
it's laced around the edges with knowledge of how it went last time
of how a repeat of last year is most likely inevitable.
Loves
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A Masterpiece in Binary
I think there is a glitch in my processing unit;
when the letter 'A' enters the system,
it doesn't just register as a character—
it spills out as a deep magenta that dyes the rest of the word.
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Envelope
My science teacher accused me
playfully and yet fiercely
of stealing an envelope
I had been threatening to peel the cover strip off of the sticky part
so it glues together
because it was just so tempting.
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we will not be silenced
because we cannot do this again.
we are tired of giving our lives up
so you can play at governance.
we are tired of pretending that war is a toy
you can wind up and watch. 28.5 million lives
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