Emoji

BY MARION BELL.

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Wanna send an emoji
For deep sorrow

Not there in our preinvented world

They’re trying to make me forget about death
About honor

Don't

BY MARION BELL.

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don’t identify w the affliction
you’ll make it worse

i’m kind of provincial like that
you can travel a lot
in 5 miles

i want you to take away this kind of
multiplicity
i mean
forgive me
any way
i’m so weird about having
a self
i’m so weird about
my selves feeling different

Moving Closer

BY MARION BELL.

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"moving closer each time to light, and total recall" - Diane di Prima

the melancholic misses it when it’s there
we’re mammals so we enact something maternal

the complete beauty of the text
a text someone should have told me about
i don’t want to let go of my grief
the most complete transmission i’ve ever received

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Marion Bell is a poet who lives in Philadelphia and the author of Austerity (Radiator Press, 2019). You can find Marion on Instagram @marion__bell.