CW: Mild potential body horror throughout the poem<\/p>\n
Untitled<\/b><\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t plan on having arthritic bones to dig up.<\/p>\n
No anthropologist will be able to answer<\/p>\n
if my hips belonged to a boy or a girl.<\/p>\n
Instead, my ribs will grow a tree.<\/p>\n
A strong oak tree whose branches stretch in the morning sun.<\/p>\n
Cellulose stronger than my collagen ever dreamed of being.<\/p>\n
Squirrels will dance along the branches of my memory.<\/p>\n
Birds will build their nests with the remains of my heart.<\/p>\n
What society deems as failures in my lifetime<\/p>\n
won\u2019t matter after I nourished this tree. Fed this forest.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t care who remembers me<\/p>\n
so long as the forest still whispers my name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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