No footnotes
(A reflection on the way we compartmentalize our identities to make the presentation of a whole, normalized, and complete Self visible to others. How do we place ourselves in the realm of the recognizable?)
There is woman seething inside me
And she needs to justify herself
With every second breath
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How can you
Expect a full sentence
When you want so many footnotes
For why things don’t fit into place
My body is a legal document
Not the complex kind
Not the kind you need to go to school to learn to read
Because you seem to already know
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