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sageshort's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
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5.0
lifeinpoetry's review
4.0
When I go to the doctor, they hand me paperwork
with a chart to locate my pain. I can’t pinpoint it.
I “X” my whole body. My entire life.
(from “I Stay Sick”)
Exorcise.
I blurred every line–especially with sex.
Dressed in men’s suits.
Smoked cigars.
Loved women.
Drank tequila straight.
Spread legs wide, when sitting,
to know what it felt like to take up space as a man.
Did not give a damn about who and what I broke, even myself.
Do not do as I did. Do not break yourself more than life breaks you.
(from “Imagining Frida Kahlo as My Life Coach”)
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tw: csa
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Out of my body and out of my mind
is just where I am aiming to go:
to daydreams and thousand-yard stares
across stretches of land,
I travel where my father cannot touch me.
This is the only way
I inhabit here.
(from “Out of Body”)
with a chart to locate my pain. I can’t pinpoint it.
I “X” my whole body. My entire life.
(from “I Stay Sick”)
Exorcise.
I blurred every line–especially with sex.
Dressed in men’s suits.
Smoked cigars.
Loved women.
Drank tequila straight.
Spread legs wide, when sitting,
to know what it felt like to take up space as a man.
Did not give a damn about who and what I broke, even myself.
Do not do as I did. Do not break yourself more than life breaks you.
(from “Imagining Frida Kahlo as My Life Coach”)
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tw: csa
-
Out of my body and out of my mind
is just where I am aiming to go:
to daydreams and thousand-yard stares
across stretches of land,
I travel where my father cannot touch me.
This is the only way
I inhabit here.
(from “Out of Body”)
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