Poets Corner: To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall

If you ever woke in your dress at 4am ever closed your legs to a man you loved opened them for one you didn’t moved against a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled into the back seat for lack of a tampon if you swam across a river under rain sang using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire ripped out the stitches in your heart because why not if you think nothing & no one can / listen I love you

joy is coming.

Barbie Ferreira by Petra Collins, Art Direction by Mayan Toledano and Julia Baylis

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