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Play It Again
a poem
The guy in my workshop class says,
I’ve heard this poem before
Blah blah, you hate your body
Blah blah, sexism
Blah blah, rape
Enough
Sincerely, just some honest advice
I say,
You may have heard it before but
You have not listened
If you listened, if all of you
Listened, if the whole world listened
I wouldn’t have to write it
So I will write it again, and she will
Write it again, and they will, and
It’s all been written before, but
Silence is the last violence I will not
Subsist in, and what I would give
That none of us
Would have to write it anymore.





