This is a set of two poems :3 42Please respect copyright.PENANAZVfFC9m6Gp
(First on love, second on heartbreak.)
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her tears taste like honeydew with a42Please respect copyright.PENANA9LohM7MTSL
hint of extraterrestrial redshifting.42Please respect copyright.PENANA1Rq6ki70p5
she walks with the grace of moonlight42Please respect copyright.PENANA1ADkp7yaUK
and has eyes like protostars.42Please respect copyright.PENANAnqt9O1GYvK
she’s not quite up to societal standards,42Please respect copyright.PENANA7nRK3cDjq3
and she lives in the future, not the past.42Please respect copyright.PENANAhMivCwmcGE
i still chase after her anyways,42Please respect copyright.PENANAdtK94VumhP
tail wagging, tongue lolling like the dog i am.42Please respect copyright.PENANAJ4r3LlbLS8
CW: SH, body dysmorphia/body image42Please respect copyright.PENANAwFhaF15hQC
who taught you to hate?
“who taught you to hate your hair?”42Please respect copyright.PENANAUUfE524Hkb
she did, with her idle remarks42Please respect copyright.PENANAuby8rLHjva
about how it would look better curled.42Please respect copyright.PENANA1hZ8i5RqQ1
(i curled it into long ringlets.)42Please respect copyright.PENANAFDPDE6O8YV
then she said it would be better short42Please respect copyright.PENANAn3qY1qdMSY
(i chopped it all off with a swiss army knife.)42Please respect copyright.PENANAvjzXwJ5dZx
it’s been bleached, stained, and cut42Please respect copyright.PENANA9PqzQDtjiN
in all manners of ways.42Please respect copyright.PENANAoe2JziSHFl
(still it was never enough.)
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“who taught you to hate your freckles?”42Please respect copyright.PENANAI4c0iziqdi
she did, tracing constellations on my cheeks42Please respect copyright.PENANAdJBYigtJVn
with a permanent red sharpie until it looked like42Please respect copyright.PENANApVIHkE6r6n
i had wept thousands of scarlet tears.42Please respect copyright.PENANABkbwEZxwru
(i spent all night scrubbing it to no avail.42Please respect copyright.PENANA6qkjDAQReb
she offered no help, only a faint smile at my struggles.)
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“who taught you to hate your skin?”42Please respect copyright.PENANA65WoF37ttu
she did, with her languid tongue and42Please respect copyright.PENANAaxhEQOEhIS
knife-sharp jabs. too pale, not tan enough,42Please respect copyright.PENANANCooj5AxiE
she said, running fingers down my arm,42Please respect copyright.PENANAjwDGoGCqSg
like a vampire, coming to suck blood.42Please respect copyright.PENANApYiU4UYphh
(i dug my nails into what made up my outsides42Please respect copyright.PENANAZPHhyRTYoT
and tried to pry it off my very bones.)42Please respect copyright.PENANAkiG9hFkqdo
i’m was left with only scars.
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“who taught you to hate your bones?”42Please respect copyright.PENANAZzhJiIPAJV
she did in late nights spent curled together42Please respect copyright.PENANAIvgHDvxpAF
in the back of my pick up truck, poking42Please respect copyright.PENANAPMV7VesYVf
and prodding at my body, saying that42Please respect copyright.PENANAavOqvBSn2g
i must be pretty big-boned to weigh so heavy.42Please respect copyright.PENANAP6F7qxCmL1
(i dug my fingernails into my thigh, peeling back flesh42Please respect copyright.PENANAmqPqOMLDKI
until i could claw away at the bone hidden beneath.)42Please respect copyright.PENANAtVud5TKFXx
the hospital tutted and bandaged me up,42Please respect copyright.PENANAxNnVlGNW5B
and stuck me into a small box with a self-proclaimed42Please respect copyright.PENANAgIUVUXJQY7
therapist whose only job was to make me feel worse.
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“who taught you to hate yourself?”42Please respect copyright.PENANAsNZXZWZ97Q
she did with her loaded gun questions42Please respect copyright.PENANACFnM6c0lmg
and sketchy answers. late night calls42Please respect copyright.PENANAnUPLtscvm8
of ‘i love you’s’ and tired apologies42Please respect copyright.PENANA3o8Xq4MQrS
when it was never truly my fault.42Please respect copyright.PENANAZ58Dbc7z1d
she taught me to hate myself.42Please respect copyright.PENANACBifRJhQbB
(what is love if not another form of hate?)