Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction by Jared Singer

Author:Jared Singer [Singer, Jared]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Subjects & Themes, Death; Grief; Loss, Poetry
ISBN: 9781943735754
Google: c3jADwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1943735611
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: 2019-12-03T15:00:41.647627+00:00

TOXICITY

Super glue was originally intended

as an emergency field suture to prevent

soldiers from bleeding to death.

The project was a partial success—

it kept them from bleeding to death

but poisoned their blood, killed them anyway.

Relationships can be just like that.

When one is sick, trying to save it

can poison your everything.

To be happy, we must all

learn to be surgeons, to cut

away that which cannot be cured.

APRIL 16, 2007

when i visit the wikipedia page about your murder,

it takes me almost five minutes to find your name.

it is tucked deep among the list of the 31 other victims.

i hate that word. victim. it’s so small. words

should have to be as big as the concept they describe.

whatever word we replace victim with should take as long to say as it took me to find your name.

there you are. Henry Lee, number 16.

it took me so long to find you because they used your

government name, your american name,

the one your parents thought would keep you

safe. even though i never heard anyone

call you anything other than Henh.

Henh Lee

Henh

Henh

when i type your name, Henh Lee, into google,

i find a thousand living people with your name

and no mention of you. i spend hours looking at their photos to see if any of them have your smile

so i can hate them. call them thief.

when i type Henry Lee into google,

i find the wikipedia page about your murderer.

the thing i hate most about being human

isn’t our penchant for violence; it’s

the fact that we won’t be remembered

for the lives we lead, only for the

person who made us this way.

despite all the death i have seen—

how often i have wanted to bring someone back—

i have always hated all frankenstein stories.

no one seems to care or even remember

frankenstein was the scientist.

the creation was nameless,

nameless like you feel now, Henh.

the wikipedia page about the virginia tech massacre

is 12,000 words long. less than 500 are dedicated to

the 32 who were murdered. the rest are about him.

about the man who made you nameless.

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