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[remanence-of-love]

[remanence-of-love]

[imissursex]

[foreignhustle]

[recaption]

[drearier]

[heavensghost]

[cestvibe]

[destroymylife]

[lifeinpoetry]

I wanted to be loved more than I wanted to be alive. For so long

I thought not to be loved is good but to be loved is to be good.

All those years, convinced — surely I must be bad, the way you keep punishing me.

— Leila Chatti, from “Faulty,” published in Prairie Schooner

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[9uc]

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[klasszik]

[especially]

[eliminated]

[destroymylife]