rachel-thompson
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Uneaten Macaroons
White girls can get stuck too,
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the same way that no money
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sandwiches you between two
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slices of
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Lazy
Today I am
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the quiet
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student who
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will not lift
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her hand *because*
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I was irresponsible
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Prettiness
I often wonder,
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sometimes, if I’m
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pretty.
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My mother and
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friends will tell me
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it’s a silly
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Depression
Depression is not
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a dragon--it
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cannot be killed
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with a single
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thrust of an
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antidepressant
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Archaeology
It is a peculiar
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thing reading a
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poem—how at first
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we stare at it like
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a clock—the symmetry
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Bobby Pin
The minimalism of
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a bobby pin—only
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holding what it
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can—but no woman
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will underrate its
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ste
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Paradise Lost
Adam was sitting
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in the blue recliner—
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his eyes, glazed donuts
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of dissatisfaction—he
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held a
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Hungry
No words
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left--except
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for how, when
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I wrote this
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poem, you will
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be expecting
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something f
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**I**
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You are
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beautiful--
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not because
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of your words
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or eye shadow,
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not because
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of the
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As I Scrapbook
I am going
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to disappear--
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stay awake
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until 6 am
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when everyone
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begins.
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They will
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look f
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