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Elizabeth Cotton
Aug 19, 20241 min read
How will you find a husband
He does the dishes He doesn’t care I don’t fold laundry well He’s just happy I do at all He thinks I’m pretty Even when I’ve gained...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jun 22, 20241 min read
I used to
I found something I'd written about her just six years ago That I only cry in movies that remind me of her That each time she was hurt or...
Elizabeth Cotton
Apr 29, 20241 min read
clutter
I grew up not daring to ask for the souvenir they would be overpriced, meaningless clutter now I buy mouse ears and Taylor Swift...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 27, 20241 min read
Therapy
you want to be an exemption to the therapy I get when you are the reason for the two hundred dollars per hour.
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 17, 20241 min read
the moon rabbit
when I looked up at the moon when I was smaller and considerably more Korean I saw the moon rabbit making rice cakes, mortar and pestle...
Elizabeth Cotton
Mar 10, 20241 min read
AI
I watched that one movie again for the first time since I was a child on my flight to see everyone but you your worst nightmare come...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 24, 20241 min read
But Daddy I Love Him
Didn’t know I was trapped Until I spotted a way out Hard to explain it’s not him That affected this change God forbid I have a thought...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 20, 20241 min read
Purging
I replied to my mother: to tell a fat person that she is fat is to tell her I think you are too stupid to realize what you look like so I...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 18, 20241 min read
I am still
Your daughter, with your thin eyebrows, round face, and anxiety You always said that we were alike, that I was your clone Everywhere I...
Elizabeth Cotton
Feb 13, 20241 min read
Honesty
Honesty without kindness is cruelty Your truth may have set you free But it caught and imprisoned me It tortured me then, haunts me now...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 27, 20241 min read
the church
she is broken the same way as the church. the cracks, the rotten core they do not matter because those who leave won’t see them anymore...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 26, 20241 min read
Prophecies of the Narcissistic Mother
Your friends are more important to you than your own mother, aren't they No of course not, I will cancel Get rid of that cat, the fur's...
Elizabeth Cotton
Jan 21, 20241 min read
mourning
I've been mourning my mother's death since I was nine years old, but she lives posting online of earlier days when I was willing to give...
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