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dar101's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Violence, Physical abuse, and Transphobia
leadpal's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Rape, Suicide, and Gore
oddreads_nicolestins's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape and Child abuse
serenspace's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Blood, Grief, Physical abuse, and Rape
ecster's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Blood
Moderate: Medical content
aglclark's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Suicide, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts
juliatindell's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape
kryskross's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Grief
james1star's review against another edition
4.0
‘"BUT WHY DID YOU FEEL YOU HAD TO KILL YOURSELF, BABY LOVE?"
1. i thought it would be a useful sacrifice
2. habit, or morbid tradition
3. god and i were in a feud
4. this world is foul i needed to bathe in my blood
5. spite and vengeance
6. no one else would do it
7. i missed not existing
8. how can you ask me that
9. knowing how lonely
10. i have been’
And:
‘I WAS BORN IN A GREAT LENGTH OF RIVER
if i run the water at full bludgeoning force it takes the bathtub thirteen minutes to fill twenty seconds for the bath bomb to dissolve eleven if i stir, four seconds for epsom salts i sink as deep as i can, involve my lungs it takes nothing if i add nothing
// when i was nine, i could hold my breath for seventy-five seconds, i practiced in class practiced underwater from one end of the pool to the other, the long way, i held the air deep in my stomach, ballooned it into my cheeks let it out in small measured hisses, i rationed it
// in ghana twenty years later, i tripped on a rock while trying to leave the ocean and got seized by the quick tide, it tossed and sucked me, i couldn't stand, so instead i curled against the floor as waves battered over my head, i held my breath and i did not die, do you hear? i did not die what i'm saying is, it doesn't matter which water i will never know what it's like to drown’
And these two quotes from their other poems were great too:
‘…we said in twenty years they'd put us both in each other's documentary, how could they not’
And ‘…what wars have been fought on me what hauntings i carry in the blaze of unspeakable light look at me through tears of blood through the healing flesh fall on your knees beatify me canonize me mark me full of blasphemy give me an army for what the fire has made of me you have been seeking wonders in all the wrong places now here, gaze upon me! i am the fucking miracle!’
Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape
Minor: Grief, Emotional abuse, Biphobia, Cursing, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Homophobia
haleydavis112's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Rape and Physical abuse