what if i want to be single spaced because i have a lot to say

but there’s no room on the page

overflowing with comic sans size 16 to 19

black is a caricature of comedy in the absence of white

instead my suggestions are rejected in favour of the socially accepted

instead i strike through the spaces in between

sometimes reading between the lines feels like reading with one eye

in hindsight our eyesights aren’t what really make us blind

we don’t “see color” so we don’t highlight what’s right

we only bold what we like and italicise when we want to add spice

i trace the underlines on nearby phrases that apparently mattered more than mine

they form a line to the spaces in between

where i belong, where i’m meant to be

not in the title

the introduction

the thesis statement

the body paragraphs

the conclusion

or even the cited works page

individually placed one by one onto a white center stage

i’m not in center alignment

in fact i’ve removed all formatting to maintain a consistent font and size throughout the text

not just to impress but as a survival tactic

i default to a white page with margins for my marginalised peers who hide their rage

i am the weak link and i never even hit ctrl + k

so i ctrl + v my skin off and use the blood as bullet points for my essay

but that part of the image is alway cropped out

so we don’t see my version history

so we don’t see the spaces in between the parts that are required

so we only see the parts that actually matter

i am the bottom left corner

the footer, and never the title