Sylvia Gong Poems

My best friend's Tumblr account is kind of not okay.
Her username is "skxlls_flxwxrs"
Except all of the vowels are replaced with "x"s
So it's technically pronounced "skkks" underscore "flkkkwkksrrs"
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Once upon a time, on an averagely pretty summer morning, Mama Duck and her ducklings headed out for the day
First came the pretty ducklings, with their perfect yellow feathers
And adorable beaks
At the very end, came one more
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My Pakistani nose is a mountain peak,
Exploding from my face like the bombs they say we drop
In a perfect world, I would milk the brownness from my nose
An excess of mass I could peel from my face like it was nothing more than the tasteless skin of a forbidden fruit
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