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your body is a straight jacket
and maybe your mind is too if you are one of those people that lives in the land of shoulds you should face the truth that each day you walk with the unseen around you the demons whisper in your ear when your mind is empty the dead walk among us and they pull your puppet strings while you daze out on your phone all the ghosts the demons your ancestors are always with you they want appreciation they want the worship you give those instagram posts remember when you made dinner and no one liked it? maybe that happened a 1,000 times now you know what it is like to live in another dimension and give all the answers while someone else takes credit for it your dead grandma told you how to soothe your baby to sleep but you took the credit at some mommy's group where all the women wore clown smiles while they cried on the inside from feeling so alone we live in a world where nothing is ever said just selfies and memes as plastic as a barbie doll's smooth vaginal mound tonight while you are eating dinner try to remember there are at least three ghost children at your table a few demons in the corner being ignored like your children who don't know how to feel except in minutes of videos where they are told how to feel this world we live in is just pretend anyone who knows how to live is already dead and they watch you at night so keep pretending everything is all right as you feast on chemicals and try to protect your children from feeling the world's woes remember you did this to them remember when they were born and you thought I can't protect them you were right teach them to notice what has gone before them teach them to make friends with their demons before they get as destroyed as you did when I was a child my parents were fighting over their different realities and my stepdad threw his car keys at my mom but they hit me instead I was hiding under the table I got a cut under my eye when I started bleeding there was this silence no one said sorry I had to wear that cut to school and no one cared I had to carry the shame of others in my heart and on my face and no one one noticed this planet we are handing our children is just our collective shame we watch them laughing at stranger's vapid gospels in three minute intervals and we wonder why we couldn't have escaped the same way then we get sad because today this is all there is all we have given them are reasons to escape
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June 2023
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