i'd plead

sage phillips

If I could

wish

for a piece of me back,

I’d plead for the hymen.


My comfort seems to

seep

from the gash

it once sewed closed.


But oh lord,

oh Devil,


It’s hard to feel

lonely

with someone that

close.

Sage Phillips is a novice poet, previously unpublished. She is a freshman at her local community college in Maryland.

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