So much white space! So little originality.
- why do i let my mind/ get under my skin/ i am so sensitive - this is ok but doesn't merit a whole page
- you are lonely/ but you are not alone - there is a difference - a cliché yet they're the only words on the page
- anxiety feels like i'm hanging/ off the side of a building/ and my hand is going to/ slip any second - a page!
- our pain is the doorway to our joy - a page!
- i have a fear of seeming too desperate
- masturbation/ is meditation - a page
- in a world that doesn't consider/ my body to be mine/ self-pleasure is an act/ of self-preservation/ when i'm feeling disconnected/ i connect with my centre/ touch by touch/ i drop back into myself at the orgasm - shame that this idea has been expressed so many times before
- happiness grew old/ waiting for me - that's ok
- yours is the only opinion of you/ that matters - Yes! Really! That's what it says.
- get out of your own way - that's ok
- reject their bullshit definition/ of what a woman should look like
- give me laugh lines and wrinkles/ i want proof of the jokes we shared/ engrave the lines into my face like/ the roots of a tree that grows deeper ... I want to leave this place knowing/ I did something with my body/ other than trying to/ make it look perfect - extracts from the best of the pieces.
Written for mid-teens who don't read much? Or is the persona a sort of Adrian Mole character?
Other reviews
- Lucy Dunn (mechanical, superficial, and only partially aware of her disrupted fluency)
- Nuri Bhuiyan
- good reads
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