My Therapist Says

My Therapist Says You Have to Ask Sadness to Leave

My sadness looks like a blue Kool-Aid mascot. When he comes, I open the door and ask him to go away.

McKenzie Schwark
Elemental
Published in
4 min readMar 17, 2020

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Illustration: Hoi Chan

TThere’s something knocking at my door. It’s not exactly a person, but more like a slim, blue version of the Kool-Aid mascot with thick-rimmed glasses and a…

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McKenzie Schwark
Elemental

exploring what it means to live inside a broken, sentient meat sack, and the more general joy and malaise of being a (hot) young woman