Yours Truly 2017 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA 2017 YT Online Book | Page 50

When they leave
drunk crying voicemails
begging for you back,
threatening
that no one else
will be capable
of loving you,
and making promises
not to leave you places
or yell at you in public
or call you names
or intimidate you physically
anymore,
don’t go back.
Why’d you keep coming back?
I hope you get sick enough
of mending the fraying seams
of your purse, bursting
with too many of their red flags,
to leave them for good
I promise
So many someone elses
will be eager
as paid storm chasers
to be in the eye
of the tornado caused
by the fluttering of your drugstore lashes
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