Trigger Warning By Katrina Snow Poem by Scott Sims

Trigger Warning:
"I put my first boyfriend away"
I say at parties because I am a dangerous girl.
Because I am better at Russian roulette than beer pong.
I have stared down the barrel of a loaded gun,
This blonde girl stared back at me
She doesn't look anything like me
If I didn't look anything like me
Maybe he wouldn't be able to find me.
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My mother makes me dye my hair brown
Tells me judges don't trust bleach blondes
How is it abusive if he never hit you she asked
Warning: I sleep with a baseball bat under the bed
Carry hot pink pepper spray in my purse like lipstick
My friend Dalton tells me he could get me a gu
Warning: No one will love you
Warning: I do not know my own
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I put my first boyfriend away
Trigger - I called the hotlines
Trigger - I sign the papers
Trigger - He sat in a jail until he didn't
Trigger - I walk to work even though I'm too small to be a babysitter today-
Need someone to watch me today-
To cut my apple slices for me-
Keep me away from knives-
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and men on the street
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who look like knives
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I don't believe in lying to children,
But when she asks me what's wrong I still tell her the storybook version
I tell her that once a bad man broke into my home
I wish I'd also told her that bad men look like respectable young men
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Bad men smile so wide they will swallow you
And you, you will convince yourself you asked him to
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Stalkers
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Can't be convicted
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Unless they're victims
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Prove They feared for their lives
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How do you prove fear
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How do you put months of held breaths
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And will you please come with me
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And he will kill me
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He will kill me
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He will kill me! ! ! !
Trigger Warning:
Put I told you so on my gravestone
because they can't ever say she didn't scream loud enough