To an Imaginary Shrink • Larissa Harmsen

How could I not have known? To think
I was so sure – I was that happy –
I’m mad. I’m sad. I need a drink.
How could I not have known to think
of life rafts? Even dreamboats sink.
Believing love songs means you’re sappy.
(How could I not have known? To think:
I was.) So, sure: I was that. Happy?


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Larissa Harmsen lives just outside of Cape Town 
with her husband, where she is working on 
being an artist without losing her mind. She's 
currently shopping her first collection, A Fistful 
of Wet Earth.