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I stumble across the threshold with a skeleton key in one hand and a crowbar in the other. I had run like my tights mumbling under my breath about sparking flints and knotted shoelaces. I promise myself I will lay me down once I have washed the moths from my hair, once the dried blood has bled once again and siphoned down the drain. And that in my bed, I will spread out my arms and legs trying to fill the crater in my moon. Incoherent and blind. I feel the walls like Braille to the bathroom. I sit down on the lid of the toilet, one hand clutching my ribs, and I, the second flood, spill out into the porcelain tub.
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM UTC
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I stumble across the threshold with a skeleton key in one hand and a crowbar in the other. I had run like my tights mumbling under my breath about sparking flints and knotted shoelaces. I promise myself I will lay me down once I have washed the moths from my hair, once the dried blood has bled once again and siphoned down the drain. And that in my bed, I will spread out my arms and legs trying to fill the crater in my moon. Incoherent and blind. I feel the walls like Braille to the bathroom. I sit down on the lid of the toilet, one hand clutching my ribs, and I, the second flood, spill out into the porcelain tub.
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM UTC
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