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your beauty is a rock that you carry
in your pocket
you can feel its weight and shape
and if you want
you can draw it out carefully
like a baby bird
you can duck behind some bushes
and hurl it through a window
merritt k is a writer and podcaster. Her first book, Videogames for Humans, is an exploration of contemporary interactive fiction and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Anthology. Her second, a collection of poetry with Niina Pollari, will be published in 2017 by TigerBee Press. She hosts the podcasts Woodland Secrets and dadfeelings, and can be found on Twitter at @merrittk.
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