For my mother and my sister, and for the women who braved this world before us, brave it beside us, and who will brave it after. – I.M.
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“What can we do?” one of us would ask. “You are doing all you can—you are enough,” the other would reply. “You are alive.”
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While there might be some universal truths, there is no universal experience.
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May we all find ourselves in the moment of listening closely, and in knowing that we have been heard.
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i heard a woman becomes herself the first time she speaks without permission
then, every word out of her mouth a riot
say, beautiful
& point to the map of your body
say, brave
& wear your skin like a gown or a suit
say, hero
& cast yourself in the lead role
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my mother
doesn’t rely on instruction manuals or men
nor does she equate the two can fix anything if you get out of her way says the best technology is her own two hands
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I want to believe
I’m a better woman
now that I’m writing poems.
that when I say,
poems I mean
another way to say, revenge .
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Do not close your mouth for them.
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the scar of your childhood will never heal.
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Long ago, we used two words for the worth of a house, a car, A woman—all the same to men who claimed them: things
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But it turns out, in the end, not everything broken in him—in us—is worth saving.
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every man is a grave .
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as is a seed, as is a drop of water we are bound to a triumphant bloom,
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the schoolman said
The world is hard harder for girls than it ever was
What a beautiful day Dan texts
I know nothing about it I respond
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I no longer want to see who refuses to see me.
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