I need help, someone
please do something
I would have never
cut a hole so deep
in my abdomen if
I had known how
much it would hurt

Eric has become one of my favorite authors of all time, and this collection was just as perfectly upsetting, dark, and troubling as I hoped it would be. Simply the way they string words together feels like a dangerous magic on its own, but coupling that incredible writing with the vulnerability and brutal honesty in Eric's dissection of intrusive thoughts and fear of one's own mind makes this a collection I won't forget.

✨ Representation: Eric LaRocca is a queer author in a queer relationship and that is alluded to multiple times in these poems.

✨ Content warnings for:

Spoiler

violence/mutilation, death, child death, infanticide, insects, intrusive thoughts about harming loved ones

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