Posts
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Kind Cruel God
Waking up to you
grinning down at me
your long, golden hair falling off your shoulders,
I close my eyes
block out your face with my hand
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The Fall of the Education System
Crunch crunch
Walking to school
with the cool
air nipping,
not yet biting,
at exposed skin
leaving it red to match
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Little Girl, Little Girl
Little girl, little girl
Why’ve you got boy’s hair?
Why’ve you got weird sentences
spilling from your mouth
And why’ve you got the wrong words
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Misuse of Music
Simple sweetness is this melody,
a single tear of destiny that betrays its maker,
Slipping down off a nose
And onto red, red clothes
that were white once.
Loves
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Erasure of the Femme Fatale
* am burned at the stake of cursed femininity.
Something of a goddess and a martyred myth.
* suppose those are one and the same.
You juxtapose ** between a revolution -
On Forgiving the Dust in My Piano
Dear daughter of Earth,
I am not naked, rose-lipped, chapped and chaste in a poetic caste and silhouetted erotically before sunset and starlight like the Thinker gazing across foreseeable perpetuity.
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Gaslighting in the Medical System: The Darkside of Mental Health Awareness
I am eight. I sit across from my mom in my pediatrician’s office on the paper-covered table. The paper is crinkled and uncomfortable. My mother’s head is cupped in her hands as the pediatrician leaves the room.
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Remembrance
Cracked pavement tells the story that time refuses to forget.
And while tree roots weave their way underneath the ashen pavement,
Time is dripping away from me.
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Assumptions
I hate the fact that so many people make assumptions.
About me.
The “fact” that because I have hearing aids means that I am deaf.
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Case files
It didn’t occur to me, not on the first day, or the second
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If you asked me to describe the job