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Legacy

Christine Liwag Dixon

we cross stitch our lips
choke on the bitter spittle that builds up each time we think of that night;

this is not our fault.

we know this.

but neither is it his--
it is our mothers’ fault for teaching us that
silence is a virtue
that pretty girls should walk with magnets between their knees.

we carry our trauma in our pockets
like loose change,
easy enough to forget so long as we don’t walk too fast.

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