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see no evil

May 13, 2013
By Anonymous

i can’t dry swallow today and sugar
won’t make it go down sweetly—
i’m regurgitating truth, bitter bitter
burning my throat. why didn’t i know suffocates
apologies from three and a half years of
guessing what a smile felt like, practicing
your ballet grace and hip hop effervescence in
a house of mirrors; i won’t take a pill because
i never knew you did.


The author's comments:
today I found out that one of my friends had an eating disorder for three and a half years. She was taking over 100 pills a day and nearly ODed and I never knew and I have no idea how to express how sorry I am.

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