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..it will only ever hurt
as much as a tooth.


Fresh off the fingers, sashimi raw.

Edit. Okay, am done with this, for a bit. Crit welcome.

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My place for you is tooth-socket empty,
rot excised and poison leeched. The ache
dwindles and rages in turns, sporadic
as a drunk's hands plinking the keys
of a sour piano. This wound is old,
and is not wholly yours; it is a well
dug by men, each hauling up the last.
I have, with my diamond head honed
and spiralling, probed their collective hollow
and borne the death of your nerve.
My tongue wouldn't leave you alone.
Working you loose was almost a pleasure;
less peachy, it's true, than the crush
of some depressing Plathian whore
who clings to sorrow like a violent lover,
holds death closer than Daddy.
I will bear you no more, nor keep you
in a paper twist, flecked with dried spit,
precious as a black pearl to its oyster.
Heirloom agon, I am hurling you
back to the ocean's vast, forgiving mouth.



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