'eating disorders' 'mental illness' 'self-love'
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Some girls say that they’re not pretty,
and staring into the saliva, mucous, and broken down bits of food swimming in the toilet bowl like fish in a porcelain fishbowl
Some girls say that they’re not pretty,
and staring into the saliva, mucous, and broken down bits of food swimming in the toilet bowl like fish in a porcelain fishbowl
A Different Kind of Suicide“It’s all about the aesthetic”
Narcissus whispers to himself.
Take another selfie.
A new post on instagram.
Ode to Myself
What a tragic image…
a beautiful tempest
Your typhoon
touches my land
I am reminded of the image.
Will I catch you
before the damage?
'What did I do to deserve this?'
Was never a question that crossed my
Mind's eye which so readily flits on time's blunt heel to remind
The ins and outs of a day of the cinematic epics of my failures dumbstruck on replay
I slid to the floor of this solitary place
surrounded by hastily scribbled memos
on monochrome sheets of paper
and cannot find a singular one addressed to my former self;
