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⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to suicidal ideation⚠️
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An emulation of Gertrude's monologue from William Shakespeare's Hamlet
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There is a bridge built across the river
therewith fantastic pain
of the mind did I come.
There, on the rock-ribbed shore,
half undressing,
the envious kilt pin
broke
when down my skirt
dropped
like a dehydrated fishtail
Waded into the weeping bow,
my button-up spread wide
and mermaid-esque awhile it bore me
up
like Ophelia native and indued
unto her element
till that the river thirsty to
drown
threatened to pull me
to my muddy death.
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Mermaid trapped in tank gif (n.d.). [image] Available at: https://gfycat.com/minoramusingbeauceron [Accessed 4 May. 2018].
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