Writing

As a teenager I am expected to conform.

Even though people tell you that you should be distant “stand out from the crowd” the second you do they tell you “what are you doing?”

Purple paper ripped out of my notebook 

you're beautiful in all the ways 

it says in my purple fountain pen 

I taught my sister how to hold the pen 

and she wrote me the note 

Can you remember

Who you were

Before the world told you

Who you should be?

__________________________

i was too much

for you

someday

I’ll be enough

For someone

You’re perfect just the way you are,
but here’s a serum for that scar.
Love yourself, embrace your face,
but first, some contour 

you know, just in case.

This is for everyone

Who has criticized

The body 

Of a child

Today 

An eleven-year-old girl

Is sitting in a hospital bed

Because she can’t eat a meal

Without feeling guilty

I wasn’t sure

how many people would be there

it wasn't the biggest protest in the state,

the one that we went to, that is.

we think

about

(at least)

500 

people came.

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