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Invalid Reality (Strike One)

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Invalid Reality (Strike One)8/24/18

Do not tell me it’s not real

Do not push your accidental

Patriarchal bullshit on me

You see

I will not allow you to invalidate me

To tell me that when my body shakes

And my nerves quake

It’s not real

Growing up

They told us to suck it up

Kids these days

What’s an emotional support animal anyway?

Be wary, friend

Because your generation is not mine

And I have reason to believe

That maybe there was something in our water

After Flint

How can you not

With children screaming for their mothers

And crying for their fathers

And now, they’re without their bottles

Look

There’s a lot of fucked up shit in this world

Enough so

That whenever there’s another Trayvon Martin

I look both ways before I walk outside

I learned while living in the south for four years

To dance like crazy down the street

Because no one will bother you then

There are times

When I wonder

Why I’m so anxious about everything

And nothing

All at the same time

Days when I think about what might happen

If I stop taking my meds for one day

Is the pain that runs through my body like a dagger

Still real?

Or was it psycho-somatic all along

I’m tired

Of invalidation

And feeling like my invisible illnesses

Are nothing more

Than figments

Of my broken imagination

The next time

You think you know

What anxiety feels like

Try smiling every time

You’re pouring poison down your throat

Every time

You walk across a street

Or pass a lingering unmarked SUV

Oh wait

You can’t

Because you’re white

And I’m Black

And your anxiety

Is not holding you back

The next time

Someone tries

To invalidate my body

My health

Everything that makes me real

I’ll tell them

To listen to how I feel

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