𝙾 𝙲 𝙲 𝚄 𝙻 𝚄 𝙼

erase each fingerprint from all the books you’ve read,
burn down each hair you dropped in public bathrooms as you were combing after crying spells,
remove each web page with your name
tear off the skin of every pair of lips that ever kissed you
perform lobotomy on all bartenders in your hometown

you don’t

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Daria P. (she/they) is a copywriter, music journalist, singer-songwriter without a band, and an aspiring poet currently based in a small Siberian town. They started writing freeform poetry in English in 2020, during the lockdown, as the way to cope with isolation. Daria didn’t try publishing until 2023 and spent these years improving their writing. Their works will be featured in the August edition of Tap into Poetry.