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Zero is not a size.
Zero is a lack of size,
a wafer-thin waist
where your organs
should be.
Zero should be the number
of girls that hate
the width of their hips.
But I live in a world
where zero is a size,
and nothing is valued
less
than substance.
Zero is a lack of size,
a wafer-thin waist
where your organs
should be.
Zero should be the number
of girls that hate
the width of their hips.
But I live in a world
where zero is a size,
and nothing is valued
less
than substance.
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the world doesn't need beauty sleep
mother earth is pregnant;
her curves yawn -
molasses stretches of dark,
dank night freckled with
streetlights sparkling.
i yearn to rest in the cradle
that the small of her back
has become.
the roads untangle like
veins unto her skin
after being held so long
in the fist of pre-dawn.
drunk in slumber, red-eyed,
beautiful - morning will
come yet, the small child
born in the rafters of
catastrophe, aching;
but before her date,
mother earth shifts in her sleep,
love settling in the wing
of her hip -
exhaustion dilutes her blood,
consciousness touches her golden
shoulder on his way out the door.
Literature
confessions of a misguided poet
certain things in my mind
would be better left unsaid,
such as:
i. how I stared at a bottle of pills
for an hour as if they would slide down
my throat on their own.
ii. when I stepped out of the shower
with bloody knees and didn't bother
to put a band aid over them.
iii. why I can't keep a smile long
enough for someone to take
my picture.
iv. who I wanted to be when I was
a little girl and who I am
right here and now.
v. where I tried to jump off a
bridge and landed in water
deep enough for me to swim in.
vi. what I wanted to scream at
you that day but I just stayed
silent and hoped you would forget.
no more pretty words and
l
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to be a waste of grey matter with no self-esteem
forgive these
rorschach nerves &
mercury veins -
i am no tragedy boy,
but i have self-decay
down to an art.
this tar tongue only starts
marlboro conversations &
self-ignition;
i only start fires.
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Maybe I should have titled this Vanity Sizing for a bit of variety?
Vanity sizing is why it's so hard for me to find comfortable pants
Vanity sizing is why it's so hard for me to find comfortable pants
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I really appreciate this. It is exhausting to think about the myriads of stigmas associated with being too large, too small, or corresponding too well with society's view of 'the perfect size.'
Thank you for writing.
Thank you for writing.