Thank you, Elizabeth von Radics, for being both my mom and my most eager copyeditor.
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Thank you, Shay Alexi, for your tender bitch brilliance.
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Thank you, Patty Rice and the entire team at Andrews McMeel, for believing in me twice.
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The poem Altar was written after a workshop with Jessica Helen Lopez.
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Multiple poems in this book, as well as its title, were inspired by Jenny Holzer’s truism: In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full of Joy.
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This life is such a heaven I forget to notice.
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If I could tell my younger self anything about this life: we do so much more than just survive it.
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with its full kitchen its full bookshelves, sharing my bed with the kind of love I used to close my eyes and wish for.
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. I didn’t plan to bitch about a kind of life I once believed impossible, to trudge through the rain back to my home
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I’m still here. I know this because it hurts and I’m so grateful. I didn’t plan to be alive this long. I didn’t plan to eat good food I bought with poems.