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Poetry

Jeanna Stegman

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Self-expression has long gone

Leaving onlya basket full of missed opportunities

   And used to's

A sick woman

 Who likes to fuck characters in novels

 Loving them with letters

Whole languages spilling

orgasms across the page.

  Each appendage

So uncomplimentary

 To the other

  Eyes violent

Sex swollen

 Heaving waves of silence

In a beat.

 I've trapped myself in a corner

 Words flowing so foreign

Through my paper thin skin

 And I don't even know how

To edit my own soul.

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