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# distraction
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/distraction/
- Published: 2025-02-15T18:23:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T18:00:39.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*by mk zariel*

why is it that in every hollowed-out room  
every liminal space, alternate timeline, new set  
of pronouns — i still hear the anthems of what you were?  
still hear whispers in my voice memos app knowing  
you’d never actually listen — the boundaries unset  
the needs you told me i wasn’t entitled to

the mixtapes, the rough drafts you would have loved—  
i have cried at a poetry reading solely because  
i know you’d also find it pretentious, and that’s when i know  
i am over you only in name. *remember when you* 
*compared my voice to a slew of medicinal* 
*herbs you had to google, and it didn’t make* 
*sense, but at least helped with my dysphoria?*  
when i called you in tears and you told me

to help you answer your email? *it may not* 
*have been supportive, but in these trying times* 
*distraction counts for a lot* — at least that’s what i  
told my therapist, before they implored me to

take a break from human contact for a bit.