Sometimes-but-not-always - Forever If You Let Me

right now you might be in a situation that you think you won’t survive but six months ago you were in a situation that you didn’t think you’d survive and two years before that you were in a situation you didn’t think you’d survive and the point is you will always surprise yourself and you will always make it through

Can you define who you are?

Every poem is an attempt at it.

I know I could have loved you but you would not let me

people who ask “what were you wearing?” or “were you drinking?” when someone tells them about their sexual assault need to be

thrown

off

a

cliff

Jenny Holzer, Survival, 1985, cast aluminum, New York.