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 May 2017 Mahdi Akhloumadi
Onoma
Wounds heal like
hell frozen over--
abstracted blood
never blends in
with the territory
fast enough.
Your long, sharp,
superintelligent
fingernails stake
their claim.
Always repeating:
'oh you poor thing'...
while picking away.
 May 2017 Mahdi Akhloumadi
JRL
His surrendered hands outstretched - grasping to hear a voice of direction, "DON'T LET ME FADE AWAY! SHOW ME A SIGN, THAT THIS IS ALL WORTH IT."
2 attempts at medical school admission and 2 failing MCAT scores, I'm facing a third admission attempt in the face, I'm resilient but how persistent am I to be?

**CAPS are loosely inspired by Wage War's song Don't Let Me Fade Away
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