moniqueezehWhisper

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sunday morning# *Twin glasses of orange juice, froth quietly fizzling out / A plate of turkey bacon piled overzeal
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flood watchdays crawl by / and humidity stills the air. / the black flies are late this season, / though around
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inheritancei am a woman with pain built in. / lighting a candle each night & kneeling before Someone & / waitin
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11:23 pmthinking about how cops are beating protestors senseless not even 20 minutes from where i live. / th
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19 in quarantineThe *drip drip drip* of the Nespresso machine keeps me company. / I watch the brown pool rise and ri
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aprilYou used to say my eyes were beautiful right before / splitting me open, groin to gullet. / *(Do you
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the great god pan is dead.spilled butane from a refilled lighter / heat lightning in the humid air / cigarette butts in a dirt
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loving like a masochistcreation like an all-consuming fire / splintering sense of self until a chest fills with bone shards
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when can we see photographs of blackness?Not until you can see the pain in our eyes, the scars on our skin, the protruding ribs and distended
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tooth decaySo this is what pain feels like: / A rotting in the center of your tooth. / You don’t want to touch
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