Fear, by Lillith Grains | poems, essays, and short stories in Poeticous

Lillith Grains

Lillith Grains

Fear

I never finish books.

At first—I dunno,

I thought it was an attention span thing?

You know, the root cause of fucked-upness that society keeps yapping in the pelvis of our ears

We gotta get back

To the way life used to be

Back to when people’d manipulate through faith

And justify rape

It’s ok bc we’re not marked

I digress

It’s not to say the world’s not fucked up

Because it is

But that’s not why I never finish books

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