Listen

Listen.
Listen to the masses.
The snide words, the cruel jokes, the unkindnesses
That you smile quietly at
Because how else should you respond?
Or maybe pretend not to notice at all.
Because if they notice you,
See how their words carve like knives skinning peaches,
How your body flinches when they pick apart
The flesh that is the sum of you…

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