Approved To Destroy
How Harm Passed Every Inspection
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You did everything they told you to do and you’re still exhausted, broke, anxious, or half‑broken.
This book is about that.
Approved To Destroy is not self‑help. It’s an evidence folder written in poetry: scene after scene that makes you realize the thing that keeps collapsing isn’t you, it’s the system that keeps calling this normal.
No soft focus. No “just think positive.” These poems rip the polite words off work, family, love, debt, and survival until you finally see what has been happening to you and around you.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re “too sensitive,” like you’re failing at life, like you’re the only one who notices how cruel this all is, this book is the language you’ve been missing.
It won’t fix everything. It will do something more dangerous: it will make it very hard to ever blame yourself for their damage again.
If that thought scares you and strangely calms you at the same time, you’re exactly who this is for.
Open it.
Details
- Publication Date
- Feb 15, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781067447120
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Kaneedra Michael
Specifications
- Format
- EPUB
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