Page 118 of The Glass Girl

Because you can crush it smoke it squeeze it swallow it choke it down

But you cannot kill it

You cannot kill it

I am asking you:

Whatever lives inside you that is so great you must destroy it

Have you destroyed it yet?

Did any of the crush smoke squeeze swallow

Kill it?

No.

It is always there

It will always be there

I am asking you to face it

I am asking you to take it

And love it

Water it

Tend it

Talk to it

And tell it

We must live together

You and me

This pain

This nothingness

Because when you wake up after crushing smoking squeezing choking

It will always be there

You will still be that fist in your face

That scream in your ear

That one bad night or twelve

You will still be all the people who have died and left you here

You will still be alone

You will still be

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