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Simone de Beauvoir, from "Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel,"

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Path of Totality, Niina Pollari

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Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; "'Kisses,"

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Fuchsia, Mahtem Shiferraw

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Tulips, study of light, by Carlo Piro

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Siobhán Hapaska: Robot (2001)

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Hua Xi, from "Waiting"

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lwexdz on ig

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god forbid, i make my disappearing act easier for you. i say it directly. i say it to your face. my blood splattered across my cheeks and caked on my eyelashes. death seeping from my pores, an icy wind from my throat when i speak, and the overwhelming presence of my divorcing of seasons? self? body?

god forbid, i make my disappearing act easier for you. i carefully wring my torment from my skin into the ink, then pen, then absorbing into the paper. i swallow up the pages and spit out digestible letters onto your screens with neon lights blaring like sirens attached.

god forbid, i make my disappearing act easier for you. i hand you my case on a silver platter, pages sticky with newly spilled blood from a gaping old wound. i do everything i do from survival instinct, that i don't even want, and still feel shame at the end of the day for not doing enough for you.

god forbid, i make my disappearing act easier for you i perform day after day, in bitterness -- in contemptuous sweetness. your misplaced anger is not new to me.

god forbid, i make my disappearing act easier for you -- who continues to turn a blind eye, to drown out my noise, to step around my smashed-in skull on the pavement. to barely breathe a word resembling it. to feel a semblance of discomfort that my musings may bring. to even watch, just for a few seconds, the puddle of blood form around what was my head.

god forbid.

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Ada Limón, from a poem titled "Carrying", featured in The Carrying: Poems

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Dan Hillier (British, 1973-2024, b. Oxford, England), Mixed Media

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Margaret Atwood, from "Wilderness Tips," originally published in September 1991

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Lighthouse by Katie Maria

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Daphne du Maurier, from "Rebecca," originally published in August 1938

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don't you realize our bodies could fall apart at any second?

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