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This restless and irritating little tick in my skin won't leave me alone. I scratch and I pick and I peel away my flesh, digging away the rotten. My words are matted cat hair and malignant growths, needing to be cut off and out. I reek of apathy and whiskey and lies and lost sleep and I feel as if I am caught in a swirling whirlpool of the kind of loneliness that consumes men whole. This has to end.
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Jun 25, 2013
Jun 25, 2013 at 4:46 PM UTC
Rotting
This restless and irritating little tick in my skin won't leave me alone. I scratch and I pick and I peel away my flesh, digging away the rotten. My words are matted cat hair and malignant growths, needing to be cut off and out. I reek of apathy and whiskey and lies and lost sleep and I feel as if I am caught in a swirling whirlpool of the kind of loneliness that consumes men whole. This has to end.
JohnM
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Jun 25, 2013
Jun 25, 2013 at 4:46 PM UTC
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