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“this doesn’t compare to the feel of your skin”

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I keep what I can of you

Words from ‘new order t-shirt’ by The National stitched into fabric

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words from Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve by Taylor Swift stitched onto fabric

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I used to be a human then i was godlike and perfect for a while and then I got tired and now im an beast. you know how it is

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god can do what he wants with me

send a flood, plagues, or turn me to salt

but only one man has earned my fear

and anything is better than a father

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i have been walking on my knees for so long

that i no longer remember where my feet are

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Suspend, Nancy Kuhl

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from ought by molly brodak, published in a little middle of the night

[Text ID: well... define hurt. Because I can't tell if I'm dull to it or if it is just everywhere. /End ID]

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— Karen Russell, "The Ghost Birds" in The New Yorker (2021)

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Margaret Atwood, from “Europe on $5 a Day”, The Door

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i have been this barbarous since i was a child

8 years old with bite marks on my arms

my mother would watch me at night

licking the red from my baby teeth

screaming, what did you do?

tell me who's blood is that?

smiling up from my crib

i tell her the truth she

wants to hear:

mine

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it is all a bit too much 

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There's something terrible in reality and I don't know what it is.

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I haven't spoken to anyone for three days. I even liked it. I think it's good to keep silent for a while. Words can't express everything a person feels. Words are flaccid.

#TheMirror1975

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portrait of a girl kneeling in a slaughterhouse by judas h.

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i want to be gentle, i want to take away the hurt

to reassure you that it will all be okay

but i think i would make it worse

that my touch would cause more pain

so excuse me if i sit here, clenching a fist

spark a migraine from grinding my teeth so hard

i want to stitch the gaping wound they ripped

but a knife only knows how to make more scars

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you lie and you lie

is that all you know how to do?

is there dishonesty

in every word that comes from you?

you go to defend yourself

but then suddenly think better of that

so you shake your head

and hell, if i don't let out a laugh

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