POETRY

markov chain cut-up #1: empathi xcx

Screenshot containing text as follows. Source texts: 'Pop 2' and 'Charli' by Charli XCX; 'The Empathy Exams' by Leslie Jamison. Being asked seemed mortifying / Partner of all your heart / What grows where I felt about desire / I've become someone enough to keep it / a month knitted them / I just wanna believe in mood but / The problem was legible / I wonder, which means agreeing with statements like this / what forms of these accounts would tell them / I get cut open up / a funny word structure / I express feeling possessive of our way / I blame it on your picture revolving in my chest / Empathy requires inquiry as well / My fingers run away the dark / in my heart I want this surgery in silence / get too close I'll pull up / I can usually feel guilt for hours / that poster hung above our encounters / Our simulated crying / Let you summon the hardest parts / you were a pain scale / the bacterial evidence of closeness / you don’t know its echo / It suggests empathy comes here / I felt the amount of me / it wouldn't last two years in a little bit of my chest

Rory Green is a writer, editor and Charli XCX stan living on unceded Gadigal land.

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