Woman, Eat Me Whole by Ama Asantewa Diaka

Author:Ama Asantewa Diaka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

Our utopias are different

You think my struggle is a privilege.

You think insensitive landladies,

a business on wobbling knees

and a body that struggles to stay alive

is a vague recollection of a dream you will never have.

I think your polished floors and your rent-free house

and not having to worry about food

is a bus my mother missed

the day before she met and fell in love

with my father

You want to be the kind of person

whose suffering has a name people can identify with

I want to be the kind of person who doesn’t suffer

The longing in my body nears its expiration date

When it dies I shall be birthed with a new longing

The longing in your body has been on the shelf for far too long

How fucked up is it that your utopia is my hell

And my utopia is the reality you want to escape from

Look how we’re both scarred with the terrible impulse to keep wanting

Look how we bleed from all this wanting

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