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The cemetery of my mind, my body under my heart shaped grave frustrating spits of rain over my last bouquet that had withered over months. The time I took to fix the stems seems useless as it still decays, beyond myself; I stay sealed in my casket, a frame on the shelf with my smiling face. I was lost but still - touching veins, delicately shaking under sheets of white; that then lay me to rest, cold cuts into dead skin leaving my flesh to breathe in the smoke from stairways of light - resting, left-overs in the morgue. My corpse unfinished, their hands curing rigor mortis. I hear the mortician whispering, ‘it takes time’ but this void of life inside means I cannot feel growth. His words echoing past my unaware sleep. I’m beyond saving and I show nothing. Aside from, grinning for my funeral
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Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022 at 11:04 AM UTC
mortician's hands
The cemetery of my mind, my body under my heart shaped grave frustrating spits of rain over my last bouquet that had withered over months. The time I took to fix the stems seems useless as it still decays, beyond myself; I stay sealed in my casket, a frame on the shelf with my smiling face. I was lost but still - touching veins, delicately shaking under sheets of white; that then lay me to rest, cold cuts into dead skin leaving my flesh to breathe in the smoke from stairways of light - resting, left-overs in the morgue. My corpse unfinished, their hands curing rigor mortis. I hear the mortician whispering, ‘it takes time’ but this void of life inside means I cannot feel growth. His words echoing past my unaware sleep. I’m beyond saving and I show nothing. Aside from, grinning for my funeral
eyota
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Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022 at 11:04 AM UTC
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