Poetry Quotes
The men in this poem have many names:
He is the sore loser from class, who to get back at me,
outs my sexual abuse to my baby brother
the guy who calls himself a feminist because it gets more tinder matches
the wedding guest who thinks rape jokes are icebreakers
the guy who scares away creeps in alleyways and demands dates as payment
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The guys in this poem are probably sitting in this room
Always demanding femmes explain rape culture to you, right now
What you are asking for is an execution.
-A Definition of Rape Culture
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Crooked bones, failed bridges
Water never needed to
stretch far to hold me.
-Sea-Born
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People keep asking me when I got sick
As if they’ve ever known me healthy
-Mythology Of Disease
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my eyes,
windows abandoned
Friends bolting out the door at first whiff of trauma
-Shelter
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Learning how to let myself
be water and earth
-Self-Care
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Anxiety is siren
singing to my body
Begging it
to shed my skin
-Waterwounds
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My femme family line
is so used to fitting ourselves
into to someone else’s
planter box
And calling this self improvement
-Motherline
-Bones Of Fire
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