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I was supposed to wash my sheets today
I was supposed to wash my sheets today but I cried in a Walmart parking lot instead
I was supposed to wash my sheets today but I cried in a Walmart parking lot because my girlfriend raised her voice at me after I almost hit another car
and my sheets are disgusting
but I only have $13.09 left in my bank account
and Alexis, my therapist, is quitting so we have our last session tomorrow afternoon
and I haven’t done my English homework in over two weeks
and I think the ear-piercing I gave myself with a sewing needle last Tuesday is infected
red hair dye and Indian food stain my comforter but I think my mom might be using again
and my roots are coming in
and my math teacher was rude today
and my medication has started giving me nightmares
and
and every once and awhile I’ll look up and not remember how I got here or what I’m doing or who I’m talking to
and sometimes I don’t recognize myself in a mirror
and I’m forgetting who I am again
and...
and...
and…
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I'm Jamie, a student writer from Kentucky and this piece is about exactly what it says it is about. It is about my experience with my brain making even simple tasks- like personal hygiene- incredibly difficult and daunting and how I often allow them to pile up and send me spiraling.