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“You learn to tuck it into your coat pocket. Like lint. Like keys. It follows you to grocery stores and funerals and lazy sunday afternoons. Some days it’s light, like a paper cut. Some days it eats your breath. But no one notices. You laugh anyway. You pour coffee. You say “I’m fine” because explaining it feels like bleeding for no reason. Grief, when invisible, grows teeth.” — Maimoona Abidi
You learn to tuck it into your coat pocket.
Like lint.
Like keys.
It follows you to grocery stores and funerals
and lazy sunday afternoons.
Some days it’s light,
like a paper cut.
Some days it eats your breath.
But no one notices.
You laugh anyway.
You pour coffee.
You say “I’m fine”
because explaining it
feels like bleeding for no reason.
Grief, when invisible,
grows teeth.