Ace Poetry

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It’s so dang exhausting

Like a faucet dripping

Most days it taps on my head

Drip

Drip

Drip

And I ignore it

Tune it out

I’ll go insane if I don’t

But then

There are some days

Where I just

Can’t

Stand

Listening

The dripping sounds like a torrent, an assault flooding my brain

But when I cry in pain

All I get is, “Don’t you love the rain?”

Asexuality in a Sexual World



—Lynn Mathews