Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey

“Before we begin, I need you to tell me our safe word one more time”


What happens when the degradation
stops being about erotica, and

simply me asking you to say
everything you know
I hate about me.

When I come to
my own self-hatred,
Does aftercare even matter?

Boundaries versus narcissism

It’s nothing like kissing a mirror
While fucking a replica of everything between 99’ and 25’

It’s resting on a knitted gray blanket
and being enamored by
the performance of golden hour
before the moon joins the
stage and begins its set

Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey (She/Her/Hers) is a Chicago-born writer and an MD-PhD Student at UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She is interested in the intersection between scientific research, medicine and the humanities. Her works have been published or forthcoming in The Brussels Review, JAKE, The B’K Magazine, Abstract, The Inflectionist Review, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, and more. More at NaaAshitey.com
Twitter/Instagram: @foreverasheley
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