READ RECEIPT
— how harm survives by calling itself polite

Some harms do not announce themselves.
They RSVP.
They read the message.
They respond later.

Written in the vein of what survives by being called polite.

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THE STAIN THEY COULDN’T CLEAN
— joy, misfiled as survival

Joy isn’t light here.
It’s what refuses erasure.

A garnet-cut piece for Voices in Stone—
joy as defiance, residue, forbidden shine.

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