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My debut poetry book “Overanalyze” is OUT NOW! You can order it on Amazon in a paperback, hardback, or Kindle version.

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This book has been years in the making, and I’m so proud of it. I first came up with the title in 2019 as a reference to my anxiety and constant overthinking. To me, this first book felt like a collection of hurt…a collection of moments and memories so painful that it was hard to capture, albeit necessary. Not every poem is sad; a lot are actually very happy and sweet, an insight into youthful reminiscence.

This book is a collection of poems, prose, short stories, and personal essays that can be summarized by the definition of overanalyze — “to analyze (something) in too much detail.” Which is basically what I do in all of my writing.

This is my first poetry collection and there are many…many more to come. I’m so excited for all that the future holds but I also want to sit with this accomplishment and revel in the fruits of my aches and labors.

I wanted to give a huge thank you to all of the lovely people who helped work on this book with me. I want to thank you all for helping make my dream come to life.

Thank you to everyone who has encouraged me on this pursuit…here’s to many more books :)

All my love,

Lauren Hope ♡

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tolerate it by taylor swift.

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long story short by taylor swift.

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i bet you think about me by taylor swift. photo by andreoiide on unsplash!

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הבל | hevel

This is how it goes: God whispers in Cain’s jealous ear, drawing his attention to the Sin crouched at his doorway. Sin has haunted eyes and a mouth that has been kissed. Let there be no doubt that Sin has been kissed, with a wet-red mouth that may taste of blood or pomegranate or the electric crackle of a stoplight. Cain looks at Sin. He runs his tongue over his teeth.

This is how it goes: Cain leaves the house at one am in bare feet and a hoodie, careful to avoid the last stair that creaks, and treks out into the Field. There are many fields in the world but there is only one Field. Cain feels the difference in the grass when he crosses the border from field to Field, the way the grey-green blades stand up at attention in his wake, the way the dirt turns ice-cold and furious beneath his heels. The earth is good with foreshadowing. The tree of Knowledge has deep roots.

This is how it goes: God says, I will take you or your brother.

God says, You get to choose.

And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”

I have never made brothers before, God explains. That is how I thought they were made. What more do you want?

“I want to steal some of his kindness,” Cain says, and shakes his pocket knife out of his sleeve.

Back at home, Abel sits up in his bed with a start, heart racing. That was close, he thinks, that was a damn close one, and does not know why.

In the Field, the ground warms as blood seeps into the dirt.

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I really recognized myself in these.

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This is for all of you who wonder what emotional abuse is. It is not a definitive list but it gives you an idea. Emotional abuse takes many forms, you can still have gone through it even if most of these don’t fit your experience.