poetry
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Smile more Be angry less You’ll be happy when you get married You’ll be happy when you have kids I’ll be happy when there’s justice
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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…
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In middle school I went to a friend’s birthday party Somehow, we ended up in the bathroom comforting one of her friends that I didn’t know A grown man attacked her She was a teenage girl they simply do not care
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Your thoughts and prayers are with the victims Victims do not want thoughts and prayers They want justice crowns toppled heads off French Revolution justice To sleep at night knowing the person that hurt them can no longer hurt anyone else not sitting comfortably in a palace or in positions of power I want your…
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I’ll choose the monster any day because at least the monster might choose me who knows what a man might do
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You wonder if the royal family has any scandals in their closet besides this there was another girl who was also a victim they are not a family they are a government institution a ruling class whose ancestors used to cut off women’s heads rather than divorce them who stole people from their homelands and…
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The word allegedly was made to discredit survivors and protect the guilty allegedly