The Bluestocking 2022-23

Isabel Snare | Grade 9 diagnosis

d i a g n o s i s the word stretches out in front of me my ears push the word through my mind like a sieve filtering out emotions and bias to leave behind only what is i try to condense the statement make it easier in some way to swallow but it doesn’t work and it travels like a nacho the sharp edges scraping my esophagus all the way down

suddenly i’m no longer confused the diagnosis has been a journey marked at first by bite-sized warnings and now it is

shrunken flattened into a

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