Posts
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Can't Change Me
She upsets me
Her face
The way she laughs
The way she talks
She's like the piece of hair
That is never in the right place
Why does she even wear that
Why does she look like that
Looking at her
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I’m The Worst, I’m Your Sister
“You’re a jerk”
“You’re the worst sister in the world”
“I hope I never see your face”
“Stop moming me”
Every time I reply with
I love you too
I’m a jerkI do your chores
How could I
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Corsets and Wedding Rings
Pull the laces tighter
A waist of 5 inches
No more
Get a ring on that finger
From a man with honor
Or you won't get your father's money
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She cares
She cares
It’s like she felt the pain
In my heart
And understood it
All at once
She listens as
The words fall out of my mouth
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Backpack Straps and Expectations
I can’t tell what’s heavier on my shoulders
The weight of my backpack
Or the weight of the expectations
I don’t know what’s harder
Falling asleep at night
Loves
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The girl who never falls
It's hard
to put yourself out there,
bear, exposed;
it's scary to take off your coat,
remove the mat,
and hang on limb over the edge of a cliff,
Will I fall?
Will the branch break?
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Four-Letter Words
I've never been a fan of Four-Letter Words,
never seen the need for profanity,
and thought swears showed a lack of self control,
Now, I haven't changed my mind
but four-letter words are more than curses,
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Woah
Woah.
I've been busy.
I haven't posted for 5 months.
I haven't opened the site for 5 months.
I have a good reason.
I promise.
I shipped myself to a New England boarding school?
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A brief, incomplete overview of being a girl
- Being a girl is being afraid to like the color pink, because you don’t want people to think you’re a girly-girl. You're not.
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When I looked at my sister
Today I saw my sister
the way she used to be—
not because she changed,
but because I remembered.
She was just there,
messy with noodles,
doing nothing special at all.
And somehow
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Size-11 EB Garamond
My words don't come
in anything other
than my voice, and
my voice doesn't come
in size-12 Times New Roman;
It comes in butterfly wings and
cluttered poems and ideas that