The word
“Disenfranchised”
Should feel heavier on your tongue than it sounds
The weight of it should
Make you distrust yourself
A little bit
*
It should unsettle something in you
It ought to feel like a spirit
Passed by and touched your arm
Until the hairs raised and little
Bumps made constellations on your skin
*
Or it should ring in your ear
And make your ear dru…
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