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g n i w o Gr Pains
@middlesmith
BONEs Did you know that babies are born with bones unfused?
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So they can squeeze into the world and become whole later
GROWING PAINS When you’re 15 you watch your dad die His best friend cries until his face turns purple
GROWING PAINS You come out to your mom at 19 She cries for three days and never brings it up again
GROWING PAINS At 24 your girlfriend grabs your wrists Screams in your face, “you’ve never been raped”, And doesn’t let you leave the room
GROWING PAINS There’s days you need to tackle Her, so she doesn’t run In front of trains
GROWING PAINS At 25, you leave her behind With a snap-crack, like a limb
GROWING PAINS A year later you learn you were abused But make excuses for it all the same
If my adult bones they’ll fuse
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again — so why have I back into the
s have snapped,
not squeezed world yet?
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self/knowledge
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@hayley.kellner hayleykellner@gmail.com post-grad, flailing spring-summer '19
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spiral roots
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@rainamulet
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look at you,
growing like a weed.
“you need to stop,”
they cry below.
“you’re taking up
too much space.”
but it’s too late.
you have grown up
higher and higher
until you can no
longer see those you
once knew so well.
you want to slow
down but you can’t.
with your head in the clouds, you forget
about the world at your aching feet,
and it is here that you finally stop growing.
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A Place I Used to
Know
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