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wrong no not me you think me into a shape that splits at the seams skin folds inside-out teeth where the eyes should be your thought is a cage made of guesses bars bending inward cutting my ribs each time you remember me wrong blood pooling in letters you’ll never read stop stop stop you’re sewing me together with rusted wire hands too eager, eyes too blind each stitch a scream I can’t get out of my throat I am not the doll you built in the dark I am the rot beneath it the smell in the walls the shadow that won’t match your light think of me again and I’ll splinter in your skull leave splinters in your hands when you try to pull me out you’ll bleed thinking my name
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Aug 10, 2025
Aug 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM UTC
The Language Breaks Like Bone Under Weight
wrong no not me you think me into a shape that splits at the seams skin folds inside-out teeth where the eyes should be your thought is a cage made of guesses bars bending inward cutting my ribs each time you remember me wrong blood pooling in letters you’ll never read stop stop stop you’re sewing me together with rusted wire hands too eager, eyes too blind each stitch a scream I can’t get out of my throat I am not the doll you built in the dark I am the rot beneath it the smell in the walls the shadow that won’t match your light think of me again and I’ll splinter in your skull leave splinters in your hands when you try to pull me out you’ll bleed thinking my name
mauricio
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Aug 10, 2025
Aug 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM UTC
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