extenuating circumstances and alternate selves

i wondered, in a vast universe with endless other versions of me, how
would my alternate selves react to the way i’m feeling?

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i want to tell myself that everything will be okay.

i want to tie myself up and cut myself into pieces, shred away
away inch of myself that i dislike, toss it into the void,
into oblivion, and i want to be…