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Selfie Becoming a Sea Turtle by Edie Meade

December 2, 2023
Reading Time: 1 Minutes
Lured under the garbage island
so entangled in fishing line
so full of convenience plastic
no matter how I snap
it doesn’t come out.
I can’t pull this off. How
embarrassing to meet anyone
on a beach, under the moon.
Even in softest light, dead
of the night, please know: I told no lies.
I promise I’m soft
though I look so hard.
It’s so hard, without a filter.
This is real
life. My eyes plead
ghost-lonely.
All these lines
in my neck,
terms of my survival.

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Meade, Edie
Edie Meade is a writer and artist in Huntington, West Virginia. Recent work can be found in (mac)ro(mic), Atlas & Alice, The Normal School, Pidgeonholes, and elsewhere. Say hello on Twitter @ediemeade or https://ediemeade.com/.

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