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My demi, I have a side-splitter for you,
It’s not very funny, the weight we carry,
We’re an ensemble, of the same tear,
I split our sides, right?
Brother, I harm you too,
Image of I, accept my sorry,
My bosom, close to my chest, my rib, keeper of my essence,
Piece of my essence, accept my sorry.

Lately, my chest has hurt, close to my chest hurts,
My brother, do you hurt?
In my feet, I am not there,
It’s tingling, the edges of me, the edges of you,
My sides are splitting, this isn’t very funny.



Averi Kurth is a young poet with an affinity for sisterhood, complex emotion, and the idiosyncrasies that make us individual. Though she has no books published as of now, she would like to publish one in the near future.
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Once I’ve finished writing, I will fold this letter up and tuck it into the Tristram you kindly loaned me (may it be our Galeotto … ). I’ll knock on your door, at which point I will most likely encounter a puzzled maidservant, who will ask who in the world I am, and I will explain that I am returning a book you were kind enough to bestow on me (generous creature that you are and clearly down-on-their-luck weatherworn would-be poet that I am).
the trees were softening, their bark for the hungry to scrape and scrape and spread it on whatever bread they could beg or bake
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