Poetry

Melissa

Content warning: Transphobia

"How does it feel to be so controversial?

I can’t decide if I would love being the center of attention

Or hate that it's because they want me burned."

Content warning: Eating Disorders, Sexism, Homophobia

"Bag tour: 2023 edition!

Nestled between lipgloss and mascara tubes;

Cat shaped brass knuckles,

And a bedazzled taser."

"Would butterflies be treated the same

if they ate dead skin?"

Content warning: Death, Paranoia

"Pattern recognition usually comes easy to me, it does today too.

In my bedroom my body becomes less a body and more a jewelry box."

"Academia has no answers

For this wretched ‘daughter killer’

Yet my coffin is still empty."