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She Call Me “Heartbreaker”
It started with Jay Z’s verse, in Mariah Carey’s Heartbreaker. I had heard it thousands of times, but that time, in the midst of my own misery, and eventual heartbreak, I heard it, as if it was speaking to me directly. Shopping in solitude, because it had been an hour since I’d been adored, and…
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The Queen of Cluster C
I have… I have a thing that I’m not ready to discuss out loud, because it means I have to leave her behind, the girl I always thought I was. I am… I am not okay, and apparently, that’s okay, but it seems very not okay, when everyone socially distances from my crisis, like I’m…
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How I wrote “Depression Is Not Real?” from Home Wrecker
Today is World Mental Health Day, and so I decided to give you a little insight into how I created one of the most personal poems in my latest book, “Depression Is Not Real?” from Home Wrecker. Firstly, I had to acknowledge that depression is in fact real. It isn’t that I had doubted that,…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 