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Treated Like Death
by Connor Orrico

I met a young woman in the hospital
who tried to die by overdose;
she laid with sheets, softer than society,
surrounding her as if she had died
— the Founding Fathers femicide.

Connor Orrico is a medical student interested in global health, mental health, and stories of people and place, particularly those that call out injustice and lift up the oppressed.