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Mary Correia Dec 2015
The nakedness of someone taking off their glasses or shaving their beard.
2. Once, you had to conceal a patch of short hair on the side of your head that you acquired because of an anxiety-coping tactic Well, the tactic was to pull your hair out from time to time. It was okay in the end because it grew back a different color.
3. Have you ever thought about how we check to see if it’s a bruise by pressing on it, and assessing whether or not it responds with pain?
4. Once, a person wrote you 3 separate poems on 3 separate occasions and told you that you were “perfect”. You tucked them all inside of a small purple wallet (that you loved), then one day promptly lost the wallet and all of the words in one fell swoop.
5. Sometimes, people fall deep into a pit of despair that's impossible to get out of. Seriously, you can’t get out! There’s no hope whatsoever in sight. Then, eventually, you get out.
6. Recently, a person who you haven’t seen in 4 years told you that you came up in a conversation that he was having about how hard it is to find “sane girls” these days, and how you are one of the only “sane ones” that he ever remembers meeting. You find this ironic.
7. Every animal has just enough brains to tan its own hyde: as if these creatures have evolved for us humans to tear them apart.
Mary Correia Dec 2015
Phish Food
If time travel was possible, you say you’re sure you wouldn’t change a thing,
but I would.
I’m not mad, but I just think that I’m worthy of better times in my life
than what I’ve had.
This just isn’t what they mention when they mention being my age-
And I have my issues separate of you, and that separation might have been
what drew us together.
I recently compared my love life to Rose and Jack from the titanic,
except I’m the one in the water, grasping and freezing.
I’m not trying to be dramatic, I swear-
I just mean:
thanks for letting me hold on for a while.
I hope I was a turning point in your journey to
psychedelic self-discovery,
or whatever.
You were not a turning point in mine.

— The End —