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Kim Addonizio

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall

A raw and empathetic poem by Kim Addonizio

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    “If you ever woke in your dress at 4am ever closed your legs to someone you loved opened them for someone 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”

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