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Black serif text on a white background. Heading: "For When You Need Validation For Your Anger". Poem: "You are angry and anxious because you never agreed to live in a burning home while the people who should care pretend the fire doesn't exist. Distress is a valid emotional response to injustice." Signed: "- Nikita Gill".

Distress Is a Valid Response to Injustice

A Nikita Gill poem validating anger and anxiety as fair reactions to injustice, a shareable Tumblr-style text post for Xennials living through a burning world.

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Black serif text on a white background. Heading: "For When You Need Validation For Your Anger". Poem: "You are angry and anxious because you never agreed to live in a burning home while the people who should care pretend the fire doesn't exist. Distress is a valid emotional response to injustice." Signed: "- Nikita Gill".

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Plain black serif text on a white background, three numbered verses. 12. Harmful beings are everywhere like space itself. Impossible it is that all should be suppressed. But let this angry mind alone be overthrown, And it's as though all foes had been subdued. 13. To cover all the earth with sheets of leather— Where could such amounts of skin be found? But with the leather soles of just my shoes It is as though I… Photo of a book page with a poem. Italic header: "Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer". Title: "HOPE". Poem: "Hope has holes in its pockets. It leaves little crumb trails so that we, when anxious, can follow it. Hope's secret: it doesn't know the destination—it knows only that all roads begin with one foot in front of the other." Black serif text on a white background reads: "I knew that I was dying. something in me said, go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept. then something else in me said, no, save the tiniest bit. it needn't be much, just a spark. a spark can set a whole forest on fire. just a spark. save it. - Charles Bukowski". At the bottom: "#DONTGIVEUPWORLD". Screenshot of a poem titled "Why Are Your Poems so Dark?" by Linda Pastan. Text: Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn't the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets? When God demanded light, he didn't banish darkness. Instead he invented ebony and crows and that small mole on your left cheekbone. Or did you mean to ask "Why are you sad so often?" Ask the moon. Ask what it has… Black serif text on a white background reads: "I knew that I was dying. something in me said, go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept. then something else in me said, no, save the tiniest bit. it needn't be much, just a spark. a spark can set a whole forest on fire. just a spark. save it. - Charles Bukowski" Below it: "#DONTGIVEUPWORLD" A photographed book page with a black square bullet and the italic title "Above Everything". The poem reads: "I wished for death often / but now that I am at its door / I have changed my mind about the world. / It should go on; it is beautiful, / even as a dream, filled with water and seed, / plants and animals, others like myself, / ships and buildings and messages / filling the air—a beauty, / if ever I have seen…

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