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“After you nothing goes and nothing returns.”
― Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
― Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
“and you laugh.
loudly--
head tipping back.
and while your eyes
are on the ceiling,
i am mouthing
something too heavy even
for this steady night to shoulder.
‘this is not a joke.’ i mouth.
‘love me. love me.”
― Letters From Medea
loudly--
head tipping back.
and while your eyes
are on the ceiling,
i am mouthing
something too heavy even
for this steady night to shoulder.
‘this is not a joke.’ i mouth.
‘love me. love me.”
― Letters From Medea
“I think I wait for people to hurt me," she said quietly, "and when they do I feel a certain smugness at being right. And, after that, I just feel pain.”
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“I did not know ow to be any differently--though I craved it. I held myself hostage and I am sure most of the time I did not know I was doing it.”
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“The centre of every poem is this:
I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.
— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (2015)”
― Letters From Medea
I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.
— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (2015)”
― Letters From Medea
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