'Eating Disorder Awareness'
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I watch you fade away
begging him to stay
I watch you wait for him
you almost fall off the limb
but
I catch you
like I always do
He hurt us when we were six
It’s getting bad again
How do I know?
I went to the doctors for mastitis,
If you don’t know
it’s a kind of infection,
don’t tell me to ‘just eat’ as if you wish for me to be released
from the constant judgement demanding all too much of me
i can’t ‘just eat’ because i can’t just be
An apology Letter to My Body
Dear body,
I am sorry
For once hating your small Asian eyes
And your mildly yellow skin color
because everyone around you was white
When he enters,
You don't hear it at first.
Because why would you think to listen?
He watches from the curvature
Your house in the valley between hemispheres.
Man, beast, disease,
