love is raw meat and i am a mutt who hasn't eaten in days.
love is a city i am forbidden to enter.
love is a prayer i am too afraid to pray.
love is a blood clot under my skin.
love is a cockroach no one can kill, entering any threshold it can.
love is a red skirt i will never wear but never give away.
love is a vulture and i am a dead deer on the side of the road.
love is a blunt knife but i need something honed.
love is a she-goat i drown in the name of Yemoja.
love is a failed star inside my chest, forever collapsing under its own weight.
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no woman's land
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