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maybe I should be more concerned / that I have an impersonator / running loose / but after all / she cannot use my credit card / or pick up my mail / or claim my insurance the most she can do is convince people / that I am someone I am not / someone you are making me out to be / and I am not afraid of that / like I am not afraid of you

—doppelganger, The After, Reina Regina

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you do not always have to be grateful for the journey you can just be grateful you arrived

—motion sickness, The After, Reina Regina

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if grief is love persevering, am I cured of it if I wake up one day and realise I have finally tired of loving you?

—I stopped mourning you this morning, The After, Reina Regina

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I dare anyone to ask oh, but what if you had to go back baby, don’t you know I’d sooner cut off my own arm than reach out to a hand that once held me down by the neck

—they will know me as the girl who burns her bridges, The After, Reina Regina

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forgive me / if I meet you today / and I love you a little less / than whoever my had my heart yesterday I am trying to make sure / there will be enough of me / for the next person after you always enough of me to love a little more / when I am asked to love again.

—the sequel, The After, Reina Regina

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I should have been more discerning of people I loved using me as an instrument of hate; I was played

—a public apology, The After, Reina Regina

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I live in peace with my sadness as habitual as a daily shower as seasonal as tropical typhoons I have learned too that just because it comes, does not mean it stays forever

—my sadness is like water, The After, Reina Regina

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strange how people lie to you and say it's because they're afraid you can't handle hearing the truth when the truth is, it is they who can't handle telling it— even then, they are lying to themselves

—pants on fire, The After, Reina Regina

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as a poet I try to keep myself honest but the truth is anger is only allowed when it’s alchemized into art pain is only palatable when it’s packaged into pretty poems even when we are paid to bare our soul, no one wants to see real mess

—any angry poem of mine will tell you, The After, Reina Regina

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you were always on me about how weak I took my coffee —and you were right maybe if it had been any stronger, I'd have woken up to the truth of you sooner

—some dark mocha bullshit, The After, Reina Regina

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if I draw pretty things onto my body will it make me want to be in it more will it make me want to claw myself out of my skin less what can I put down in ink to seal in a soul yearning for escape

—tattoo designs, The After, Reina Regina

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some people don't deserve poems— poems are art, and art is beautiful and completely incongruous with the hideousness of their souls.

—The After, Reina Regina

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astrothii

the whole trojan war could have been avoided if paris just. ate the apple in one comically large bite. athena, hera, and aphrodite would have been stunned into silence.

for you— may the love that got me never find you. and if it does, run.

—The After, Reina Regina

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I am not what happened to me. I am what happens next.

— Reina Regina

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