This is a set of two poems :3 148Please respect copyright.PENANArfqeccTg6y
(First on love, second on heartbreak.)
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her tears taste like honeydew with a148Please respect copyright.PENANAqY1QIIKnhU
hint of extraterrestrial redshifting.148Please respect copyright.PENANAqFwgxa68Rt
she walks with the grace of moonlight148Please respect copyright.PENANAGf26DFKB7e
and has eyes like protostars.148Please respect copyright.PENANAd7YD5HvL8V
she’s not quite up to societal standards,148Please respect copyright.PENANAK7aFDckpx2
and she lives in the future, not the past.148Please respect copyright.PENANAOeQKhsrN2E
i still chase after her anyways,148Please respect copyright.PENANAyEJo9d6RxF
tail wagging, tongue lolling like the dog i am.148Please respect copyright.PENANALDrVRD2Ecr
CW: SH, body dysmorphia/body image148Please respect copyright.PENANAhbCCL0e9i2
who taught you to hate?
“who taught you to hate your hair?”148Please respect copyright.PENANAh9md57FSNI
she did, with her idle remarks148Please respect copyright.PENANARFv0ok7BZV
about how it would look better curled.148Please respect copyright.PENANA761BRQ1KT9
(i curled it into long ringlets.)148Please respect copyright.PENANA23AYoM7TV6
then she said it would be better short148Please respect copyright.PENANAEjv7wYYngF
(i chopped it all off with a swiss army knife.)148Please respect copyright.PENANAyhWjYWhvf1
it’s been bleached, stained, and cut148Please respect copyright.PENANA8Ty0ckt8zf
in all manners of ways.148Please respect copyright.PENANAemyTKD4wzN
(still it was never enough.)
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“who taught you to hate your freckles?”148Please respect copyright.PENANAb9g2cFkkru
she did, tracing constellations on my cheeks148Please respect copyright.PENANAfXcpwQvtP8
with a permanent red sharpie until it looked like148Please respect copyright.PENANAxgDwz9gPze
i had wept thousands of scarlet tears.148Please respect copyright.PENANACnfW8upjSK
(i spent all night scrubbing it to no avail.148Please respect copyright.PENANAfgUNuDH00p
she offered no help, only a faint smile at my struggles.)
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“who taught you to hate your skin?”148Please respect copyright.PENANAiXj92sM4Sq
she did, with her languid tongue and148Please respect copyright.PENANAia5nMF9sWO
knife-sharp jabs. too pale, not tan enough,148Please respect copyright.PENANAUabVYIgPFS
she said, running fingers down my arm,148Please respect copyright.PENANAi2cZh11rrH
like a vampire, coming to suck blood.148Please respect copyright.PENANAOu8MN5nmLZ
(i dug my nails into what made up my outsides148Please respect copyright.PENANAIMo4rH9Wdc
and tried to pry it off my very bones.)148Please respect copyright.PENANAgjR23E592D
i’m was left with only scars.
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“who taught you to hate your bones?”148Please respect copyright.PENANAF4hEITAv5Q
she did in late nights spent curled together148Please respect copyright.PENANAXzC2N4ic9U
in the back of my pick up truck, poking148Please respect copyright.PENANAZveIpvUXy0
and prodding at my body, saying that148Please respect copyright.PENANAiHEX7B4jGk
i must be pretty big-boned to weigh so heavy.148Please respect copyright.PENANA7g5zmQfdyJ
(i dug my fingernails into my thigh, peeling back flesh148Please respect copyright.PENANAl0ZF3lXDEp
until i could claw away at the bone hidden beneath.)148Please respect copyright.PENANAzjDhA5p7uG
the hospital tutted and bandaged me up,148Please respect copyright.PENANATZQxLqNZ3M
and stuck me into a small box with a self-proclaimed148Please respect copyright.PENANA29YPfcYpTl
therapist whose only job was to make me feel worse.
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“who taught you to hate yourself?”148Please respect copyright.PENANA91v7thocCf
she did with her loaded gun questions148Please respect copyright.PENANAygvKB7oesh
and sketchy answers. late night calls148Please respect copyright.PENANAVYCoSC5Tsn
of ‘i love you’s’ and tired apologies148Please respect copyright.PENANATc3NW48l3i
when it was never truly my fault.148Please respect copyright.PENANAofT7JYZ2Kt
she taught me to hate myself.148Please respect copyright.PENANAGfaTvupbE5
(what is love if not another form of hate?)