Annie Wood, There You Are, 2022 (Website, Instagram)
Graphite, charcoal, watercolor and acrylic paint on paper

I don’t want to:

have little fingers
tinkering with my crystals
fucking up my energy
for a whole ass year

walk them
feed them
teach them
patience through
voodoo dolls
& vanilla extract

be that girl
who got knocked up
side the head
by some man
who said I love you

tower over them
so they can learn
a child’s place
is beneath
me & my history
of being beaten
into apologies & fear
of my body

know they could
be a victim or
a perpetrator
or a nobody

play momma
& daddy
& God

I don’t want to explain
I didn’t want them

Dom Witten

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