Wake up.

Contour your blemishes and

Go to school.

Hide your curls in your hood

Until your friends recognize you.

Wake up.

Smile into surgery

Strangers will drill into your head

For 7 hours

And will send you out with a Band-Aid

And a pat on the back

Wake up!

Detonate your ears

To mock the whispers.

Flood all cities around you

So you can’t be whispered to.

WAKE UP!

Photoshop your body

To fit a size two.

Auto-Tune your voice

To deafen others.

please wake up …

Stretch yourself out three feet

past your original height.

Cut your own heart into fragments

And distribute until fully consumed.

Congratulations,

You have successfully lived a life of

Unconsciousness.