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The Slapping
Michelle Greenblatt
a girl who found a boy
that beat her asked
herself “what does
this make me?” while standing
straight up for the slapping, afraid
to rock
back from the blows, the permanent & blue
dents on her cheeks / brain almost
listening for something
besides the questions she asked
while her face looked
more like a fruit gone
bad than her facebeforehim, she knew:
afterwards they would lie
in bed, she would write, & he
would read it, take it or tear
it up. burn, she thought,
burn.
