Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay
“The librarians never asked why their patrons needed to check out a baby,”
“The librarians never asked why their patrons needed to check out a baby,”
“And they do burn witches,”
“I was disillusioned with suburbia,”
“Are you ashamed of me?”
“She missed being the prettiest, most popular girl in the room,”
“Figured I would end up dying alone, surrounded by cats,”
“She was what people called a good girl,”
“To mark the paper was the decisive act,”
“That someone might like you just for your ethnicity was its own violence,”
“I know she was scared to die,”