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Diminished, objectified all at once
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in the belief you’re
 
the only one who gives a
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one absurdity stacked
upon another absurdity
on top another
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     At night while the waves churned,
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Today, when I was returning home after a bad fight with the present boyfriend of one of my students, whom I had been stalking recently on Instagram, I could still feel the humiliation burning on my nose.

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