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By: Lydia Rae Bush

Honestly, I forgot the time

I was seventeen and experiencing

adult-onset symptoms and so

reached out to a trusted adult,

saying, I think I got the craziness

that ended my grandmother and

passed down to my father, but

they said, nah, you’ve just got

demons, so I just believed them,

and we just let the patterns settle

in and deepen. God, what a waste

of time, exponents, and delusion.

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Lydia Rae Bush is a Best of the Net nominated poet writing on embodiment and social-emotional development. Rae’s work can be found in publications such as Vocivia Magazine and Corporeal. Lydia’s chapbook Free Bleeding is forthcoming with dogleech books. 

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