nana

i don't feel like i belong here

ill never get used to this world

or maybe this world will never get used to me

i was birthed from a generation of misunderstood women

screaming in each others ears, conveying emotions beyond what we know

raised by roaches 

fed by anger and the organs of my decaying lover

bathed in blood

and wrapped in skin

consumed by a world that can never love me
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