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How to write poems you have to hide from your family

How to write poems you have to hide from your family

a how-to that's also a poem (with other poems inside it)

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Isabelle Correa
May 16, 2025
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Write about being horny
You never met a lost soul 
you didn’t want to fuck.

Write it down—
sucking on shoulders
and his high nose on your stomach
and the night with her hands on you
and you won’t want 
to show your face 
at the dinner table. 

Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Don’t spare any corner your cheap flashlight. 
Expose that time your father left you
at a Burger King and the moments 
your neighbor made you watch. Don’t worry

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