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January 4, 2025

ritual

Opal Irving

my mother asked me to boil her wig 

the plastic shrank like a belly-up spider 

outside my banshee sisters were still wailing 

the call came from the state prison the next day 

 

i covered the mirror with his metallica t-shirt 

the only thing black we had in the house 

Opal Irving is a writer living in Montana. Follow her on Instagram @pleasure.pawn. 

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