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hey, don't forget to smile, it looks good on you
ishikawajimusyo
風営法.深酒.店舗計測.図面作成.不動産登記
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property of Queen Lauren
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Caléndula
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We Are All Misfits Living In A World On Fire
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sort of a companion to this poem.
#lately i try to abstain from explaining my poems#i think they should be self-contained#i think they should speak for themselves#and you the reader can take away what you like after all#but with these in particular i do just want to say that the urges i describe are not truly ones of wanting to die#i haven't struggled with that kind of ideation in a really long time.#but i do just in my nature have an intense urge to self-destruct#(to stop eating. to go on a bender. to cease all life-preserving measures.)#and medicine - as much as it takes. and it takes. - it's meaning right? and it requires me to stay Stable enough#it's a higher purpose that needs me to stay relatively stable and turns out that i value it more than i crave self-destruction#so that's what i mean when i say it's good for me because i'm bad enough for myself#lena's poetry archives#poetry#medschool
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mm not my best work, not a great poem, but it's my dead bestie's birthday and i choose the coping mechanism so here's a collaboration with my 18 year old self
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Self-Destruct Mechanism Sings a Love Song or Love Song in Which The "You" is a Medical Degree
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The Next Best Thing or Medschool Friends 2
(as already seen in my last comp post)
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happy easter sunday, friends
#lena's poetry archives#poetry#poem#poets on tumblr#tw: religious themes#easter#after a long season of what've all felt like holy saturdays#i do feel i'm coming alive again#the sun is out. oh and therapy and the Work is working. that too
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blood in side wounds and other poems
#poetry#lena's poetry archives#web weaving#poets on tumblr#blood#cw blood mention#quotes#literature#webweaving#words#side wounds#religious themes#on love#on friendship#the mortifying ordeal of being known
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uhhhhh been experimenting with writing poetry in spanish as a part of practising. not sure how it's going??
if my grammar is wack, por favor dígame, tengo miedo de preguntarle a mi profesora sobre mi gramática porque mi poesía es,,,,,,,, personal
no but really please feel free to correct my spanish lol
anyway, here they are:
Las Eleciones Que Tomamos
Si quiero
La Estrella Muerta
Una Toracostomía
+ the poem i wrote for class back in like, 11th grade. here's what baby lena was up to (edited a little, mostly for grammar/vocab)
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Rotten Work (especially if it's me)
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we study in small groups, where i'm getting my degree. i think i got stupidly lucky with the people i was grouped with, i really do, but i also think going through this kind of thing together will make you love just about anyone
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Dream Logic (originally posted under the title I do, of course, but you wouldn't have asked me to)
originally written for the prompt "here's what i remember" of escapril 2021
#poetry#poem#lena's poetry archives#writerblr#poets on tumblr#grief#been going back to some of the oldest poems on this blog#deciding what i want to keep#what to delete and what to edit and repost
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Ode to Body Donors (everyone's first patient is dead)
the first time i shadowed an orthopaedic surgeon i was a first year medstudent who couldn't tell her carpal bones from her tarsal bones. it was a magical experience that solidified the knowledge that i was going into some kind of surgery one day, and seeing living patients and living tissue actually was beautiful - i was spending so much of my time around cadavers, seeing something so alive and fixable was exhilarating. and, and, reflecting on it, the gratitude i have towards the people who donated their bodies for all of us to learn from - i learned to see the beauty in that, too
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love & friendship - collected writings from side wounds and other poems
#web weaving#poetry#lena's poetry archives#on love#on friendship#friendship#friends#loving#being loved#quotes#literature#webweaving#words#side wounds
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We Are Not the Last of Our Kind from Side Wounds
#side wounds#lena's poetry archives#poetry#poem#writerblr#poets on tumblr#words#on queerness#queer poetry#religious themes#gay poetry#lesbian poetry#on queer survival
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This Much I Know from Side Wounds
#lena's poetry archives#poetry#poem#poets on tumblr#on survival#on staying alive#on healing#on recovery#words
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Exam Season Blues from Side Wounds
#poetry#lena's poetry archives#poem#writerblr#poets on tumblr#burnout#medschool#exam season#med student
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Repair Therapy (poems that didn't make it into Side Wounds part 7)
so therapy is very silly to me. necessary. but silly. here's a poem about it where i'm a car
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