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Posts tagged with child-abuse

  1. Every Universe Has a Twin

    There was a barn. We could hide there. He would come looking for us. He would have his whip, his ropes that he would tie you with. He would strip you. Then, he would rip your flesh clean off your back. There was nothing he could do to make it…


  2. Inside Houses


  3. This Is What Anxiety Looks Like On Its Way To Outer Space

    this is what anxiety looks like on its way to outer space/ it bounces off and then consumes the room/ any room/ you could rip your heart out, and then leap into the snow/ even your bones are clenched/ your butt hole went metallic years ago/ the pacing has worn


  4. i will tell you not to listen

    i so hear your anger i have my own & i will tell U not 2 listen 2 the dogooders who will tell U they can save you if you just regurgitate all the bloody shit of it on them they R only focusing on you for their own needs/…


  5. My Childhood Home Was Always Filled With Guns

    I thought he would kill me. He threw me through walls. He broke every bone I had. But I was more resilient than he was. I was tougher than he was. I was twice the man he was. Even as a ten-year-old. I refused to give him the respect he…


  6. gonorrhea of the ass

    When he arrived, he smelled badly. Like garbage on a hot summer day of dogs and death. When he first arrived, it took him a few days to remove his GoodWill coat. It was all he had. The coat smelled badly, too. The other boys eyed him warily. “Are they…


  7. Tim Barrus: The New York Times

    Tim Barrus: The New York Times (for those of you who are telling me that the New York Times would never publish my experience/opinion – eat shit) http://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/nyregion/suicide-school-overdose-deaths-ny-family-foundation.html?comments#permid=28470036 Institutional Abuse of Children With Autism I worked in a school for children living with autism, and saw the most shocking, egregious,


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