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Don’t Throw Your Arm Around Me

Nylese Levin·October 5, 2018

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Don’t Throw Your Arm Around Me

written by: Nylese Levin

Please don’t throw your arms around me
Especially when I’m trying to leave
Because as soon as you throw your arms around me
My hatred leaves
And my heart is at ease
And I forget everything that made me not believe
Every time you throw your arms around me
I feel weak
Not because I love you
But because you use that against me

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Nylese Levin

My name is Nylese Levin and I’m 17 years old. I am a senior and I live in the Bronx, New York. I’m hoping to create a book of poetry before I graduate.

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A textbook example of nominative determinism, Lou Storey has always been a storyteller, a fact well illustrated in his art and in his writing. His careers have reflected that as well, first as a creator of idea-based exhibitions for museums, and later as a psychotherapist employing narrative therapies. His art and his writing share qualities of rich texture and detail, examining our capacity to be absurd while allowing a measure of forgiveness for our foibles. Storey and his husband Steve retired in 2021 and moved from New Jersey to Savannah Georgia. “We love everything about Savannah, it is like a city that looks like a park and thinks it’s a small town. Best of all, we can grow bananas in the backyard!”

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