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“Gingerbread I knew I had to get out of there before the icing cracked and they discovered that I'm burnt around the edges, doughy in the center, that what they thought was sugar is salt. If I was a good girl, if I could satisfy their cravings, if every dream in my misshapen head didn't bite, I might have stayed at the table. Wouldn't you run, too, from such voracious love?”

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Book:Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty

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“How stupid that all I have to do is grow two squishy lumps and suddenly I'm man's best friend”

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Book:Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty

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“Rubenesque: the word for masterpiece curves. Screw you, unsalted rice cakes.”

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Book:Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty

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“And those women were sneaky. They understood that including fantastical elements in their tales- golden eggs, signing harps, talking frogs- worked to mask a deeper purpose....it made the stories look on the surface like 'a mere bubble of nonsense' within which it was possible to 'utter harsh truths, to say what you dare' about the state of women's lives. Because they were just stories, right? Harmless little fantasies?”

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Book:Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty

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