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Why Can’t I be Both
Why can’t I be both
Why can’t I like
Crop tops
And still support
Women’s rights
Why can’t I wear makeup
And still think
All bodies
Are beautiful
Why is it bad
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The Way Of Life
One foot
Infront of the other
Head held high
Flat expression
On my face
The only sign
Of any emotion
Are my fists
Clenched by my sides
Or my thumb
Tapping each finger
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I'm Sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry for what
My country is doing
For what we seem to think
Is OK
I'm sorry for how
My president is acting
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Heart of Glass
If I hand you my heart
My heart made of glass
Don't shatter it
Don't have the shards
Splay across the ground
Don't hand it to someone else
To crush it
Beneath their fingers
But if it does
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Mascara
The brush
Covered in the black ink
Swiped at my eyelashes
Made its mark
On my face
At least
That's what it used to do
Now it sits quietly
In its spot
Far away from reach
Loves
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Ashes
No one died
right?
I wasn't affected
but I am affected.
I know them
their situation
we're good friends
but why is all of this happening in my lifetime?
In our lifetimes?
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They knew what could be
The little girl sat in her swing
blond curls the way they are before
you grow up the everywhere I don't care
it looks like my hair was woven from sunlight
a throne for a flower crown.
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The Bathroom Mirror
Give the lights a sickly yellow glow
Let me reflect
The scribbled-on stall doors and brightly-colored posters
Framing her face, to remind her
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Life, Freedom, Joy
For every woman being raped.
For every trans made illegal.
For every Native forced out of their home.
For every black person called “lesser.”
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if only.
If only it was because
you were fifteen
and I was thirteen
but it wasn’t.
Not really.
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the body still blames itself
If only i had smiled differently,
worn a different skirt, a longer one,
if i had stayed quiet, let him win,
shrunk smaller, been easier to touch,
been harder to hurt, laughed when i wanted to cry,
cried when i wanted to scream.