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I wish I could be seen inside out Maybe it’d be easier to see the complexities you would see how much I’m covered in cobwebs commonly known as anxiety. I have scars inside and out You’d see jagged wounds that never properly healed. The outside is scarred by neurosis, I compulsively pick at anything that…
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Please give me another term because what I’m observing is best described as absurd I am first generation born and bred in the good ol’ U.S. of A. I’ll be quick to say Te amo Peru but it doesn’t stop my heart from beating red white and blue. Walls are built at the border to…
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But not of desperation instead it’s a fight to believe in the American dream that I was raised with. Physicians are in the position to make life or death decisions or if they even want to listen to your symptoms. we are all sick with chronic limiting beliefs pained with bills and bills and bills…
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A Superficial society Sets the standard with Brazilian waxes, squats To get bigger asses Because the world Doesn’t see us With rose colored Glasses. No such thing as A hairy cutie. Women should be Hairless otherwise About you they’ll careless. Bareskin pussies Makes for hot stock If you don’t have it Expect to get dropped…
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Rain drenched clothes. Pigeons at church Bell tower mass Pavement bouncing with wounded words thrown at children absurd I testify against injustice. mom and pop are closing shop chains and chains attack straws on broken backs. Anyone hiring? Window shopping just admiring Cycle conditions are tiring. Unity and scrutiny will restore the purity. Voice is…
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I was voiceless but my body was screaming revolting. Mind drew blank Retreated after the attack. Once friend now foe Role playing a pimp and Marilyn Monroe famously labeled a whore. but she also said stop likewise we were ignored pounded for more and more. Victim blaming is part of the culture game “Some just…
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I’m facing zeroes Knowing I’m my only Hero. Back against the wall Hope Microscopic small The way it’s always been for as long as I can recall. The powers that be Don’t give a shit About me. Choking on cheap checks That bounce banks charge An overdraft fee When I got no fucking Money Dollars…
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The struggle is real but I refuse to accept that fates are sealed. when reality is harsh it becomes surreal. Violence and poverty are steel like chains causing inequality to remain. Shootings on street corners believed to be the hood’s epidemic but history proves it’s a repetitive pandemic. Death left to rot in the streets…
Yesenia Guerra 