Self-Hatred for Dummies
step 1:
romanticize, fetishize, another's rejection of you.
relish in any received contact from them,
as mice do leftover crumbs
brushed onto the floor.
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step 2:
polish your memory of this "We" on weekends,
like pretend still-living structure.
awe at Their glazed-over eye windows,
broken beautiful.
reminisce the nights which left decimate their inner tissue pape…