The guilt engine

Whitney Ellsworth, poet

get it on a shirt

I’m a mess but I’ll treat you right

These old hands 

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“Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.” - Deane Juhan

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From Woroni, 1986. 

what I say to myself when I get too worked up and have to calm myself down