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a poem that doubles as a mini-interview

what makes me cry in movies isn’t when someone dies, or something emotionally equivalent.

it’s not that I’m sad, it’s that in those moments, I’m sad there are no tears.

what makes me CRY those rivers of tears is when children aren’t protected when parents make it their children’s responsibility to cheer them up, fix them up, bring them up, a reversal of parental roles.

what makes me CRY is when out of the woodwork against all the odds people make sacrifices to help another in altruism.

I don’t know why or how these are related, but there’s something about lamenting how children in those situations learn that the world is unsafe and that they internalize more than their plate’s worth of responsibility;

and then when this “the world is unsafe” and “no one will help me” belief is broken when people extend their kindness and help there are tears of happiness, as if something miraculous has happened, instead of something component to human nature.

Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and I write about silly things like poetry to ketchup sandwiches but also about serious topics like facing racism in therapy or leaving an abusive relationship. We can be many things at once, right?

Hop down the rabbit hole? 🐰🕳