antilang. no. 5 - Pithy Politics

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Amie Campbell

Queendom I am a country and a Queendom unto myself and my beauty has inspired awe for generations I have nourished humanity with my blood and they have built their homes with my bones, stretched my skin beneath their thrones. I have sacrificed myself so that they may grow and prosper silent in my agony. I am a country and a Queendom unto myself, but this is not a democracy. You cannot come and go and take from me as you please. I am a living being and my body has boundaries. Sometimes they may be hazy and sometimes I may move them, but these boundary lines are mine to draw; these border walls are mine to build or let fall.

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