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Charlyne Yi

You Can't Kill Me Twice

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Ten o’clock, New England.
    A local pub along a disappearing old road
    somewhere near Concord.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Two quarrelers
    meet in the middle of a dream
    and take ten paces.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    even if they come and go, even if
    you drift and grow,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    that they can share the earth,
    and there really wasn’t ever a good reason to kill.
    And no war happened
    ever again.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    The War That Never Was
    Two men meet in the middle of the sky
    to start a war.
    Their men wait
    for their command.
    After circling each other,
    minds doing figure eights,
    they decide to fly on top of the tallest mountain
    to gain perspective.
    On the mountain,
    the two drink tea in silence.
    They share photos of their families
    and watch the tiny villagers below
    move about their lives.
    They come upon agreement
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    the idiots will praise destruction
    as a cigarette lies down to rest.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    left a suicide notebook
    dedicated to blaming me,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    “Hi, hello, hi, hello.”
    But people passed, never daring to make
    eye contact or throw a hello back.
    I said to him,
    “Hello, how are you?”
    And he said, “Oh, thank god! I was beginning
    to believe I didn’t exist or that I had lost my
    fucking mind.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    sexually harassing,
    raping,
    and gaslighting
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    White powerful men
    want to reappropriate
    the term “Witch Hunt”
    when defending themselves
    from being held accountable for
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