depression
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Oreo: Saved by a Rat
“Hey, can you take a baby rat?” I looked at the Petland employee. “Someone left a bunch of orphaned babies outside, there’s only one left, take it and it might live, otherwise it’s either snake food or will die without a mom.” I thought for a second. He let me hold her. She was the… Continue reading
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Life Is for Living:
A Collection of Poems Written from the Psych Ward in March of 2021; Continue reading
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33 and counting
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. Before my 20th birthday, I promised myself that I would not live to see my 30th. At the time, it felt like something way out in the distance, almost unreal. I didn’t quite grasp the significance of creating this time limit on my life, a deadline if you will. Continue reading
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This is Different
I am no stranger to the dark and the sad, to the depths of painful expression Most of my life it was all that I knew, but for windows of respite, pockets of light It isn’t unfamiliar. It is unwelcome. Continue reading
I can I know 