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Wounds in Messiah Sandals

I asked if you kept the old habits. You smiled without teeth and said, “the best place to hide track marks is between your toes.” You wear your wounds so plain in your messiah sandals.

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How to Vote in the UK Local Elections Tomorrow

Even though local councils have nothing to do with Brexit, the conservatives are braced for a “Brexit rebellion” at the polling booth tomorrow. This presents a great opportunity to kick the tories out of local councils if we can capitalise on it.

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Fibers

Now, as I am one year and seven months from thirty, I understand the infinity of growing old. I imagine myself as recycled clay. Formed into this year, grabbed by another and shaped into that one—but where is the kiln? Where is the sun that dries the grapes?

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An Alternative Literary Canon

The established literary canon sucks. There, I said it. As someone who has two English Literature degrees under her belt, I can say with full certainty that the canon is tired, dusty, over-analysed, dull, and mostly white and male. Gross.

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Welterweight

I still think about the endocrinologist lifting my shirt to see how my ribs were jutting out of the skin.

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