if my first name started with the letter O
I would kill myself
and move to Portland
and eat cheerios
when I finished I would ask you if your pee ever smells
like cheerios
or anything besides pee
and you would say I’m disgusting and I’d say
I was joking
but then take it back
because I’d be dead and it wouldn’t matter
you don’t matter
I want to write “you don’t matter” on your forehead
and on your house
and on the earth
and bring you into the universe in a rocket ship
to point a lot and show you it
just so you know that I am serious
that I mean it
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
mal coppenrath looks seventeen but is not. she likes being vegan more than she likes most of the people that she knows. and currently lives in new york city. but wants to move to portland. and san francisco. and stay in new york. she is also very fond of the tapir.