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16-Year-Old Buys Lighter Fluid with Her Birthday Money


​mama i’m looking for some kerosene

              there’s a heat
              coiled in my belly
                                                 like an animal
feels like

              personhood                      writhing

the kind that says

                                   FEED ME FEED ME

it’s immense and barbed and puncturing me from the inside out


                            consuming
                                                        too slow though

                            i’m looking to become glowworm
                                                                      lustrous

i wanna scrape this fire out of my stomach

                                          and smear it all over my skin
                                                 wet my palms with it
                                          bathe myself in my own power
no longer vessel

                            i wanna be a walking explosion

but maybe this heat’s alive

                     maybe it’s gotta be coaxed
                     wave some jasmine under my nose
lure the womanhood up my throat

                                                                             out of hiding
let it tumble out my mouth

                                                 turn me orange apollo woman
humming with electricity

​ready to chew up anything and spit it out fresh 

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Thea Rowe is a developing writer and poet from Michigan. She has been involved with the literary arts community in Ann Arbor, Michigan since 2016. She participated in the Brave New Voices international poetry slam in 2017 with the Ann Arbor poetry slam team. Her work is to explore honestly: the self and womanhood in the twenty-first century.
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