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The LGBTQ+ Center
I went to the LGBTQ+ youth center for the first time.
For a year
I stared at the website,
wanting nothing more than to go.
When I finally went, on a Wednesday,
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Odds and Ends
Trying to write a poem
All attempts are incomplete
Half finished
Lines scribbled out
Second guessing every sentence.
A page of unfinished thoughts
Random lines.
They make zero sense.
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The Hat
One day
I crocheted a hat
I don’t really know
Why
or
When
But the hat became
A constant companion.
Loves
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I’ll Say It: I Hate Our President
I’ll say it: I hate our president
All my life, people have written me off as
“different”
“possessed” and
“antisocial”
And while yes
I am different
I am not possessed
I am disabled
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This is not America. This is hell.
The school board tells us lies
Promising that they understand
Yet they don’t know
What it’s like
To live in a world
Where you are seen yet never understood
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I guess it doesn't really matter, does it?
If you've never missed someone,
you've never felt pain,
you have never felt what it's like to love someone so much that when they don't love you back it physically hurts inside you.
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Resist.
Intransitive verb: to exert force in opposition
