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Counting Tiles

You spoke addiction

like a language

like an art form

marks on your arms

on your thighs

A Mosaic of patterns

You said they looked prettier than the

ligature marks around your neck

the invisible noose

you constantly swayed from

Like addiction was a guy

you couldn't make your mind up

about

at-least they had more meaning

You said I never understood the purpose of tiles

and how beautiful they looked close up

and how you never got bored of counting them

There was more life in your bruises

than in your eyes

like each little hole

****** out a little more of you

said I could never understand the

beauty in

feeling

really

feeling

lukewarm bath water

turn cold

In a womb of your own destruction

in a needle

in a rope

in a razor

a false sense of life

of life

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Written by
odi
American
Published
Apr 16, 2012
Lines·Words
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Notes

For her/him that/it.

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