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How I kept trying

August 23, 2013
By Lecksi_e SILVER, Fruitport, Michigan
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Lecksi_e SILVER, Fruitport, Michigan
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."- Anais Nin

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my mother once told me depression was hereditary
so I cut myself open to bleed black
hoping the molecules that I inherited would spew out of me
like my black vomit

once I aspired to be daddy’s little girl
but I couldn’t stop my body from growing,
my skin from stretching
nor my bones and teeth from yellowing

I am sorry that I have aged so grotesquely

© Emily M., Milford, CT

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It's not completely finished and I'm looking for a new title, so please, any feedback would be appreciated.
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