poem
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Bedazzled pepper spray
In my thirties, I got pepper spray It’s bedazzled to make it feel less terrifying than the reality is I got it because I worked briefly at a gas station as a cashier last year it was attached to a casino with a bar all I could think of was working at a place with… Read more
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I exist for myself
They think you are a woman from the time you are a girl theirs to do with what they want and god forbid you have a mind of your own and a life that does not align with one they can consume and use they sneer at the single, childless women say how desperate, how… Read more
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The Price
There’s another man who allegedly abused his wife that’s coming out with a new movie I’m majoring in screenwriting and every time I think maybe I should talk more about film there’s another one, smiling, up on the screen and I keep on worrying about winding up in a cult or tied to some horrible… Read more
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Unemployed English Major, 2026
I spent a week in my room bleeding from something that was deemed a biological necessity and curled up in bed watching as the news talked of terrible men doing terrible things and no one did anything and the only thing that kept me from screaming was the small apartment that I lived in and… Read more
