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a space for youth writing on mental health & identity
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a space for youth writing on mental health & identity
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![]() [Content warning: sexual assault] Homesickness is the average temperature of a healthy human body, it’s baptizing our hands in Uncle’s ashes, specs of his life between palm creases and fingernails— we fantasize— it’s Title IX violations, expanding
your vocabulary, the elderly in my family are not big on funerals. Home-sickness is funerals, it’s the thought of his hands on you-- I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you when you were assaulted on homecoming night. Home; sickness is guilt, it’s ripping my heart out, stripping naked, dismembering my body before your eyes. Guilt lives here. Home: sickness is want without body because I would loan you my ribcage to love. Home. Sickness is the marching band in the dining hall that makes my body forget how to function for a second. Comments are closed.
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