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Dirty Girls’ Disease

A Poem about Endometriosis and Stigma

Maggie Bowyer
Jan 27, 2022
Photo by Anh Nguyen on Unsplash

Dirty Girls’ Disease

They told me
I was sick
Because I let you
Find a home
Deep inside me.

They told me
I must be dirty,
Sex with demons,
Sip this clean juice,
Have you tried yoga?

Is this pain
Ripping me -
Ripping us -
Apart, really just
Psychosomatic?

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Maggie Bowyer
Maggie Bowyer

Written by Maggie Bowyer

Freelance writer. UNGODLY, WHEN I BLEED: POEMS ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS and more

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