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  1. whatdoidoo whatdoidoo
    posted a quote
    August 14, 2016 9:26pm UTC
    my alone feels so good,
    i'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude

  2. AutumnSadness AutumnSadness
    posted a quote
    June 11, 2013 5:30pm UTC
    In Love and In War
    a poem by Warsan Shire
    To my daughter I will say,
    'when the men come, set yourself on fire'.

  3. AutumnSadness AutumnSadness
    posted a quote
    May 28, 2013 6:31pm UTC
    UGLY
    a poem by Warsan Shire
    Your daughter is ugly.
    She knows loss intimately,
    carries whole cities in her belly.
    As a child, relatives wouldn't hold her.
    She was splintered wood and sea water.
    She reminded them of the war.
    On her fifteenth birthday you taught her
    how to tie her hair like rope
    and smoke it over burning frankincense.
    You made her gargle rosewater
    and while she coughed, said
    girls like you shouldn't smell
    of lonely or empty.
    You are her mother.
    Why did you not warn her,
    hold her like a rotting boat
    and tell her that men will not love her
    if she is covered in continents,
    if her teeth are small colonies,
    if her stomach is an island,
    if her thighs are borders?
    What man wants to lie down
    and watch the world burn
    in his bedroom?
    You daughter's face is a small riot,
    her hands are a civil war,
    a refugee camp behind each ear,
    a body littered with ugly things.
    But God,
    doesn't she wear
    the world well?

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