On my seventeenth birthday

I left talcum footprints

On the stairs

As my feet padded around

the house.

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I woke up late to no buzzing phone

And a birthday cake

hidden under

the bathroom sink

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I spent the day weightless

but as evening came

my body turned to

heavy lead

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I was poison

amongst the lively

asian men

and women

that planted food

on my table

that I made toxic

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I knew now

that my fate was sealed

in the gold wall decals,

the birds that never sang