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Joanna Valente
Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015) Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), Sexting Ghosts (Unknown Press, 2018), No(body) (Madhouse Press, 2019), and #Survivor (The Operating System, 2020). They are the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing By Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine.
Future Wife
In the future, I want everything to be
silver because then at least I’ll feel like
I’ll be part of the future and never old
enough to feel like I’m
undesirable, to be left
for someone else who will also become
me one day.
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