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So thick and stiff and hail like

Bleed… as loud as a siren

Tell soil, sand and soul your name

Bleed… floods

Smiles

Twilights

Bleeeeeed! to protect the landscape of your heart

To cover the geography of your body

To keep the altar of your church

Anonymous…bleed

Through everything and things

… out of time and moments

… out of her-story and places

… out of rage and spaces

… out of page and stages

Bleed over things and people

Just like how we have soaked you into blood

And drowned you with slurs

Just let your vagina bleed

And breathe

And scream

As the only evidence that ‘You Lived’

CHILD… bleed so that his-story doesn’t erase

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