“I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.”
I’m not the _________________________ you think I am.
Does this hairstyle make me look fat does this fat make me look fat?
I’m ruined.
The past is too present in my future.
Don’t touch me where I’m not perfect (don’t touch me).
I deserved it.
The scars are a reminder of who I was am.
Whose experience is this?
If you judge me because of my past then you need to judge my present.
How can I be a feminist and still hate myself?
How can I be an atheist and still believe in something?
If you want to love me, turn off the lights and turn my volume down.
Cough out memory and press chalk around discharge to warn others of the imprinted trauma.
Ever regret an animal? Ever regret eating an animal? Ever regret being treated like an animal?
I fall in love with shadows because they don’t talk back.
I am ready to cut again.
I have a fetish for language and food.
When you called me a bitch, I wanted to bite my fingernail off and use it as a disposable knife to cut your ignorance out.
I am afraid of men.
I am afraid of white men.
I am afraid of middle aged white men.
I can tell you aren’t listening.
Screams are not enough to save the dying.
I thought I deserved that disease.
I want to know who I caught it from.
I think I know who I caught it from.
My body is a stain too resilient for bleach.
I think I’ll just follow my shadow home and see where it leads me.
Aimee Herman 