i am a woman made
of countless triggers never warned
(**i don’t need a ******* trigger warning, I pull them every day**)
of unnoticed scars
(i heal too fast and am too clever at hiding them)
and uncounted skipped meals
(because i’m too good at lying and too fat to have a eating disorder)
of empty pill bottles and whiskey bottles and ****** wrappers and inboxes
of unspoken dependence
and too much *****
(because i used to like to drink too much so that i could flirt with death
& if I survived I could feel thinner in the morning)
but all that is changing in the morning
but right now it feels good to feel drunk
and that’s okay
because I’d rather feel drunk and alone under flannel sheets
than ever
you lot again
Nov 19, 2012
Nov 19, 2012 at 1:09 PM UTC
i am a woman made
of countless triggers never warned
(**i don’t need a ******* trigger warning, I pull them every day**)
of unnoticed scars
(i heal too fast and am too clever at hiding them)
and uncounted skipped meals
(because i’m too good at lying and too fat to have a eating disorder)
of empty pill bottles and whiskey bottles and ****** wrappers and inboxes
of unspoken dependence
and too much *****
(because i used to like to drink too much so that i could flirt with death
& if I survived I could feel thinner in the morning)
but all that is changing in the morning
but right now it feels good to feel drunk
and that’s okay
because I’d rather feel drunk and alone under flannel sheets
than ever
you lot again
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