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lifestyles

'save the animals' you cry 'eat healthier!' 'buy only organic!' you do you, we won't judge but we, we do we. we ain't got the luxury of vegetarian diets and cruelty-free handbags we ate gravel and rocks until our stomachs could crunch granite chicken, beef, dog - bones are bones they all feed the hunger good enough. we took your animal hides and furs from your dumpsters when you indulged in expensive ideals we didn't skin them - they already dead and it ain't our fault they go cheap in the charity shops. y'see, we ain't about clean living or good living just living.

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shibari

I weave ropes, name them 'happiness', and bind myself with them tightly. The knots are fashionable and stylish and I smile when people look at them. Their eyes are narrow - they are jealous. Tonight, they too will examine their own ropes and try to copy the intricate ties exactly as I have knotted them so others can look at their bodies and be envious too. (Sometimes, I feel the sky weigh down on where I have bent my head And wonder why I can't fly.)

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ジュウガツザクラ (jugatsu-zakura)

You say "when I was your age - " "I remember when - " "focus on the important things - " "why aren't you more like -" Your words are locks clipped to my skin weights pulling it down as if to expose the actor behind the screen. But there is no screen. There is only me. But 'me' is not what you want, is it? It's 'you'.

it hurts.

'It's worthless.' 'A waste of time.' Maybe to you, it is. But It helps me grow. It makes me happy. I like it. Why aren't these good enough reasons?

You don't understand. You don't have to understand. I only need you to accept that I won't flourish the way you did in the time you did nor how you did. My adversities are my own. My mistakes are my own. The world shifts, the season shifts. My triumphs are precious, even if they wilt overnight. My tragedies are not trivial, even if they are as small as a 2D glitch on a high-resolution monitor a lost knick-knack an impossible dream, picked too soon already dead before it touches the ground.

My successes are not your successes and my losses are not your losses. Where were you when I first saw my words printed for the world to view a showy display for people to pick apart and ruin but mine all the same. Where were you when I cried over that boy the one you didn’t know about because you wouldn't have liked him anyway. Where were you when - I can't remember it now but I remember you weren't there.

You mean well but you wouldn't understand. I don't expect you to. I just need you to know that I'm not you nor will I ever be you. The jugatsu-zakura blooms when the others are asleep but look at how the masses marvel over it in winter.

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