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"how to fill the spaces where love used to live
part three:
switch your perfume for something
cleaner, that doesn’t remind you
of his sex and skin.
wade into rivers.
make promises to the current.
sit down with your mother,
call her “Mom”
-let her cover your hand with hers,
drink the coffee she makes you,
even if she doesn’t always make it right.
accept the fact that sometimes,
your chest is going to ache
and you’ll attribute it to the weather,
and how your sheets are always cold-
remember that in the middle of the night,
you overheat and that gives you nightmares.
drink more water, because you always tell yourself
to anyways. tell yourself that it will fix everything.
don’t be sad when it doesn’t."