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Suzanne Scanlon, from "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," published in 2024

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “What I couldn’t explain via text”

[Text ID: “I still don’t know how / to love someone / without swallowing them.”]

Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain

never needed anyone, never will

“If anyone had opened his arms to me, I would have wept like a child.”

— Albert Camus, Death in the Soul

shoutout to sysmates who feel disconnected from their system, or aren't liked by their system, or only have a few people they like in their system, etc.

Trista Mateer, from Small Ghost: Poems; "Small Ghost Checks Her Self History,"

Giuseppe Ungaretti, from a poem titled "Christmas," featured in Selection of Modern Italian Poetry