This poem includes found language from “Wave Dash” (Super Smash Bros. Wiki), Electronic Arts Terms of Service, Nintendo Terms of Service, “The Effects of Emotional Abuse” by Andrea Mathews (Psychology Today), “Forms of Emotional and Verbal Abuse You May Be Overlooking” by Darlene Lancer (Psychology Today), and a gaming Discord server.

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Heather Nagami is the author of Hostile (Chax) and a Kundiman fellow. Heather’s poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in jubilat, Dream Pop, Lantern Review, and Berkeley Poetry Review.