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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “i feel like a woman’s words
    in a man’s book.
    there
    but in his voice”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: feminism, impactful, poetry
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “i am drinking sauvignon
    while my housemate shags upstairs
    and i will write poetry
    before the night is through.”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: humour, poetry, sex
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “all i can think is that aphrodite
    was born from the severed penis of a god
    – so what would come of my tits?”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: aphrodite, feminism, greek-gods, poetry
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “and she will throw apart concrete to find me,
    will raze these buildings to the ground
    with a smile on her face and the smell of my sweat
    teasing her tongue”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: monsters, poetry, transgender
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “i’ve never won a bet
    but i saw god in the bathroom mirror
    and found my mother’s maiden name
    carved beneath a seat”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: god, motherhood, poetry, religion
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “i don’t think i’ve ever felt so cold
    than when i saw my dad cry
    or when i tumbled into a gutter
    folded
    like a
    paper swan
    and slept in the rain.”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: life, mental-health, poetry, sad
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “in this raging, poisoned sea at night,
    it is just me
    and death”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: death, party, poetry, rave
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “i can feel blood in my nose in my eyes
    taste it finally on my tongue
    and i chase it, coat my teeth in molly
    eat through the ceiling stir the clouds
    in my throat”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: drugs, mental-health, metaphysical, party, poetry, rave
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “you never tucked my hair behind my ear
    and i never hit the ground until my knuckles broke”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: abuse, love, poetry, summer
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “i will slit the tight skin knotted over my spine
    unfurl my ribs into two great wings
    and clatter my way up to heaven.”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: god, heaven, mental-health, metaphysical, poetry
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “he will feel these bones beneath the silk of my flesh
    feel how they’re crooked and carved and
    some of them hollow, marked by twin holes,
    the shape of your eye teeth.”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: abuse, god, love, magic, metaphysical, poetry
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    Elizabeth Train-Brown
    “not before i have prayed in the rain,
    washed the blood from these old bones,
    not before i have stripped away everything
    that remembers you and stepped into heaven
    as a naked star”
    ― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
    tags: abuse, god, heaven, love, metaphysical, poetry, religion, survivor
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