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I had a dream I killed you. Threw knives at your fat chest, held you under the bath water when you were a baby. Pinched your nose and covered your mouth with a pillow, gave you a razor and made you do it yourself. I woke up cold and strangely calm. I woke up tired of both of us. And under the yellowed, motheaten blankets, I realized: it was what we’d both always wanted.
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Nov 8, 2016
Nov 8, 2016 at 3:21 PM UTC
Mother Daugher Ballad
I had a dream I killed you. Threw knives at your fat chest, held you under the bath water when you were a baby. Pinched your nose and covered your mouth with a pillow, gave you a razor and made you do it yourself. I woke up cold and strangely calm. I woke up tired of both of us. And under the yellowed, motheaten blankets, I realized: it was what we’d both always wanted.
in the perspective of my mother, toward me.
clementzobel
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Nov 8, 2016
Nov 8, 2016 at 3:21 PM UTC
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