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Dear girl, Treasured thing Cram your maw so full of overripe fruit That it spills over sharp canines, The colorful meat spilling over lips Dry and cracking Soothed by the juice of the fruit Running down your clean white smock Turning sticky by your feet Eat these wrongdoings, affronts to God Offered on a gilded platter by the women before you So upon exiting your body You might find some respite in the sins of your own Sins of the fruit-flesh, sins of the mother And the father and the neighbor All crammed into one vessel Like a capsule, super-charged with blasphemy
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May 7
May 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM UTC
Breaking flesh (sins of the vine)
Dear girl, Treasured thing Cram your maw so full of overripe fruit That it spills over sharp canines, The colorful meat spilling over lips Dry and cracking Soothed by the juice of the fruit Running down your clean white smock Turning sticky by your feet Eat these wrongdoings, affronts to God Offered on a gilded platter by the women before you So upon exiting your body You might find some respite in the sins of your own Sins of the fruit-flesh, sins of the mother And the father and the neighbor All crammed into one vessel Like a capsule, super-charged with blasphemy
Inspired by the book "Sin Eater" by Megan Campisi
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May 7
May 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM UTC
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