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Personal Narrative-The Incarceration Of Myself

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I need to take a walk and clear, my head about this About why I can’t go out without changing my clothes, my shoes, my body posture, my gender identity, my age, my status as a woman. The point being that I can’t do what I want to do with my own body because I am... the wrong sex, the wrong age, the wrong skin, because I was wrong, wrong again to be me. And even tonight suppose it was not here in the city but down on the beach or far into the woods and I wanted to go there by myself thinking about God or thinking about children or thinking about the world all of it disclosed by the stars and the silence: I could not go and I could not think and I could not stay... Alone.. As I need to be ... Alone because I can’t do …show more content…

I have been the meaning of rape I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration with or without the evidence of slime. I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own. and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your

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