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Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo

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My body is something I have worn

for other people.

(from “Orpheus”)

The long afternoon of my life,
long life, long season of rot

(from “Summer”)

a girl embroidered

a girl teeth bared  locked inside a photograph

a girl dances to the same coiled song    can never leave

keeps her looks       outlives the other guests

filled up with all her teeth    never returns from the party

is never heard from again    is everywhere

Forgotten But Not Gone      

cries into your drink & returns it to you

makes you say her name   salt in the well kills the whole village

(“Girls That Never Die”)
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