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#bodyhorror
I can’t feel it, Unless it hurts. So please touch me, And make it hurt. Take your ice pick, And Tap Tap Tap Through my sphenoid. Root around in there, See how far you can go. Listen as my pleading goes from words, To sounds. A verbal gestaltzerfall. Do you ever wonder: Why I came back? Why I need you? All I can think about is, Whether or not you’ll hold me, When I start seizing.
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May 14
May 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM UTC
T.B.I
The fear. The feeling of not being able to do an action so simple, reflex, human nature. They bring out the glass, my body screaming at me to look away. It’s brought to my face Panic fills my whole body, every nerve lighting on fire. My throat begins to spasm, sharp, hard pulls that rattle my chest and leave me feeling animalistic and small. Like a deer with an arrow in its leg. Scared, helpless, trapped, your body working the way it’s not supposed to. It is in this moment that I realize, My body is now a prison. My most fundamental instincts turned against me, Leaving me nothing but my strange, echoing thoughts. I feel a strange sense of serenity. Does my body reject its own flesh because I’m not deserving of it? Or is the rejection of my human nature a rejection of mortality itself? Is this what divinity feels like?
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Mar 7
Mar 7, 2026 at 3:19 AM UTC
Rabies
Bashing with a passion BANG BANG BANG Cracking’s sure to happen if I BANG BANG BANG split peel Dainty digits pick around Like monkeys picking fleas Digging ‘round pink matter Doing as I please Shifting lobes to the side Searching, searching, when I find What I want to clear Images of you appear Shards of skull scrape my skin As I grab what lies within Pulling pulling pulling out Biting biting biting down Sinking teeth into my dreams Killing you to free me Squelching Squeaking Squirmish The gore makes me sick I take a chomp and juice squirts out Like squeezing a fat tick Gnawing gnawing gnawing On this memory of you Killing killing killing Everything I can’t undo Pictures fade and colors blur As fleshy noodles slurp Why am I feeling pain? What happened to my brain? Wrap and wrap, I patch me up Sluggish arms move like syrup Fuzzy thoughts surface when I try to find what happened then Washing ****** hands I think I think I think I need a drink Fingers fumble with a bottle Anger sparks and turns the throttle With practiced hands, I pop the cap Wait— Who taught me that? Instincts linger despite the hole Inside my thoughts, inside my soul I killed her— —who’s her?— from my memory Yet still she hides within my body If I forgot, why can’t they? Why does she choose to stay? I need her gone I need her dead And though she’s now out of my head She haunts my movements Ligaments Despite my best efforts The loss of you still hurts Aching in my bones Pelting me like stones I cannot escape —no matter how much I hate Who?
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Mar 6
Mar 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM UTC
Personal Lobotomy
Bashing with a passion BANG BANG BANG Cracking’s sure to happen if I BANG BANG BANG split peel Dainty digits pick around Like monkeys picking fleas Digging ‘round pink matter Doing as I please Shifting lobes to the side Searching, searching, when I find What I want to clear Images of you appear Shards of skull scrape my skin As I grab what lies within Pulling pulling pulling out Biting biting biting down Sinking teeth into my dreams Killing you to free me Squelching Squeaking Squirmish The gore makes me sick I take a chomp and juice squirts out Like squeezing a fat tick Gnawing gnawing gnawing On this memory of you Killing killing killing Everything I can’t undo Pictures fade and colors blur As fleshy noodles slurp Why am I feeling pain? What happened to my brain? Wrap and wrap, I patch me up Sluggish arms move like syrup Fuzzy thoughts surface when I try to find what happened then Washing ****** hands I think I think I think I need a drink Fingers fumble with a bottle Anger sparks and turns the throttle With practiced hands, I pop the cap Wait— Who taught me that? Instincts linger despite the hole Inside my thoughts, inside my soul I killed her— —who’s her?— from my memory Yet still she hides within my body If I forgot, why can’t they? Why does she choose to stay? I need her gone I need her dead And though she’s now out of my head She haunts my movements Ligaments Despite my best efforts The loss of you still hurts Aching in my bones Pelting me like stones I cannot escape —no matter how much I hate Who?
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I am utterly vile My yellowed body bloats Flesh festers with larvae Numbers at my feet climb Like mold on damp walls I am like a festering wound Filled with maggots and pus Like a half-decayed corpse Skin bruised, yellowed, and knawed Like mold you don't notice Until you bite the bread it lay on It is not real, I tell myself I do not really look like that, I promise myself But every photo I see, Every pair of downcast eyes, Every word I type Tells me otherwise I wish to grow claws And shred my skin off my bones To burn the corpse I live in To **** this infested meat I inhabit I open my fridge for a snack But the power had been cut long ago The meat is ridden with maggots The fruits melting with decay The air buzzing with insects who make their way over to me And burrow into the **** on my stomach I am vile, disgusting, horrendous, viscerally ugly, disturbing, rotting, horrid, decaying, putrid, and I am running out of ways to say it. I am disgustingly human and disgustingly dead. All that is left to do is to burn the corpse.
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Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM UTC
Burning My Corpse
i’m too heavy, too full of venom and scorn i wish i had a birds hollow bones so i could fly above the desolate and lovelorn but instead i dig and i dig and i dig and i dig i sink into the core of the earth and i melt into magma to burn into ashes and return back to where i was made i am a hornet of an angel with a silver knifepoint stinger and rice paper wings they flake and crumble and cry and rumble i am an insect of a woman with grotesque snapping jaws and two druxy hearts staring into the window of ephemeral eternal deflowering so i die, i die, and i die again my feathers are weighed down with oil and rot so i rip into myself and chew on my loathing
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Jan 4, 2025
Jan 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM UTC
hollow bones
I’m sitting in history right now, the teacher is talking and I can hear him but I can’t understand the words. I can’t filter them through the thoughts in my head. I feel like crap right now but I don’t know exactly what I’m feeling, it feels like sadness but it’s not, and my therapist told me to recognize my emotions based on what sensation I’m feeling in my body. But all I can feel is an empty pit in my stomach and that’s just hunger, and maybe an ache in my chest, pulling down on my heart, but I always feel that and it’s just normal. It’s just normal, right? I feel like I’m going to throw up all the nothing I’m feeling, all the nothing inside me. I should be feeling something, feeling anything, but all there is in my chest is emptiness. I don’t feel, and have I ever really felt? I think I feel heavy, but I don’t know what I feel, I’ll never know what I feel. I’m not human, I'm incapable of being human. Humans can hold things, and keep holding, but everything I grasp fades away and slips out of my hand, turning to dust and was it ever really there? And maybe humans make errors but I make too many, more than can be counted. I walk towards flowers and they wilt, the leaves and petals turn brown and fall off. Those same flowers when I try to water them and care for them, I give them too much and they die, they die because I tried to keep them alive. Those flowers stick to me, braided into a crown of thorns that sits upon my head. And vines and weeds overgrow me, spiders make webs in my hair. The spiders are my only friends, and they sit with me. I’m sitting in history right now, with the spiders and the vines and weeds and the crown of dead flowers and thorns and the empty pit with all the nothingness all tangled together to make one inhuman monstrosity, incapable of feeling and holding, to heavy to be held, that can hear but cannot understand the words, that can think but not speak the thoughts.
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Dec 16, 2024
Dec 16, 2024 at 12:44 PM UTC
Dead Wildflower Spiderwebs
I’m sitting in history right now, the teacher is talking and I can hear him but I can’t understand the words. I can’t filter them through the thoughts in my head. I feel like crap right now but I don’t know exactly what I’m feeling, it feels like sadness but it’s not, and my therapist told me to recognize my emotions based on what sensation I’m feeling in my body. But all I can feel is an empty pit in my stomach and that’s just hunger, and maybe an ache in my chest, pulling down on my heart, but I always feel that and it’s just normal. It’s just normal, right? I feel like I’m going to throw up all the nothing I’m feeling, all the nothing inside me. I should be feeling something, feeling anything, but all there is in my chest is emptiness. I don’t feel, and have I ever really felt? I think I feel heavy, but I don’t know what I feel, I’ll never know what I feel. I’m not human, I'm incapable of being human. Humans can hold things, and keep holding, but everything I grasp fades away and slips out of my hand, turning to dust and was it ever really there? And maybe humans make errors but I make too many, more than can be counted. I walk towards flowers and they wilt, the leaves and petals turn brown and fall off. Those same flowers when I try to water them and care for them, I give them too much and they die, they die because I tried to keep them alive. Those flowers stick to me, braided into a crown of thorns that sits upon my head. And vines and weeds overgrow me, spiders make webs in my hair. The spiders are my only friends, and they sit with me. I’m sitting in history right now, with the spiders and the vines and weeds and the crown of dead flowers and thorns and the empty pit with all the nothingness all tangled together to make one inhuman monstrosity, incapable of feeling and holding, to heavy to be held, that can hear but cannot understand the words, that can think but not speak the thoughts.
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and what is a shape when everything’s fake isosceles, i can’t breathe one thing having athsma taught me is the shape of a ribcage when i saw it on screen
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Nov 23, 2024
Nov 23, 2024 at 8:04 PM UTC
on childhood, or something
My veins are drawn taut Fishing line beneath my skin I extend outwards.
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Oct 12, 2024
Oct 12, 2024 at 8:29 PM UTC
Taut
that's just the way the body goes i guess wanna mould my hands around his shoulders through t-shirt and pyjama pants wonder what the mirror shows him that perfect mouth is smiling do i wanna be him or ingest him i wish that i could memorise it wanna put my mouth around the reflection kiss him everywhere until he sees red hold his perfect imperfect face and taste myself on his breath take his arms or be held in them i wanna feel and i wanna know i guess that's just the way the body goes
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Sep 19, 2024
Sep 19, 2024 at 3:16 AM UTC
the way the body goes
it's highschool recess and my best friend and i watch the seventh-graders from our perch as 'older boys' with minimum-wage jobs and harder homework. one is handing around a gleaming can of monster energy like the blood of christ himself and everyone wants some. they treat the factory-issue can with such tender care, flushed fingertips on cold metal. "why are they so excited about a monster?" i ask. ("what does it taste like?" a wide-eyed friend's younger brother asks.) "because it's novel. it's their first taste of freedom." my friend says, and then suddenly i remember all the times we've done the same with our friends.   first, in an airport because me and my shaking hands couldn't finish it ourselves. outside school, warm from the flesh of someone's school bag all day. under the table and the teacher's nose because i stayed up too late, comuning with other friends in the blue dark. no matter who buys it's always for all of us.   ("have a sip"-"i don't like this one"-"the juice one is my favourite") like maybe the 58g of sugar and 600mL of caffeine is okay if it's split between us. like the sharing of spit is holy. i look out at the small crowd of seventh graders and realise they are just beginning to learn: what is communion if not half backwash? what is holier than ingesting your friends? what is holier than killing your hearts together?
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Sep 14, 2024
Sep 14, 2024 at 8:21 PM UTC
pretty sure sharing a monster energy is the purest form of teenage friendship
When the screaming ends the flesh seared away by the blinding white light many eyes opening wide in colors yet unseen eyelids peeling back and shriveling cursed to forever look and see everything burning hot metal sloughing the charred remains of flesh and bone teeth acidily dripping from the writhing form and as the ashen wings sprout and all noise ceases you pick up a feather hearing the chorus and choir and wonder if this is the epitome of beauty
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Jul 9, 2022
Jul 9, 2022 at 2:13 AM UTC
Beauty
This useless meat sack. I am the thing watching behind the eyes of this empty meat sack. I am the one piloting this sausage of a body, directing it to walk, talk, smile. Sometimes I wish that I could reach into my chest and tear it open. I want to rip and tear and slice past the epidermis, watch the white fatty cells and veins and arteries moving. I want to see white, bone-white, a cage for my useless heart. Watch my heart pump like those sheep hearts we used to dissect in science. I remember how they looked, white fat clinging like ivy, and greying in the cool room of the labs. Nothing but a cold, clammy lump of flesh. Maybe death smells like the butchers. Like bleach that can’t cover the festering smell of rot and ammonia. I’m heavy on my ankles. I remember the last time I starved, and I felt as if I could fly, balanced on my tip-toes, poised to fall. And maybe falling felt just as good. It’s so unbearably soft. My chest, my arms. I can feel my cheek meat. Fat on bones. Scrape it out with a spoon like pork cheeks, soft, tender, delicious. A chrysalis. A cut-out, a hollow man wearing hollow shoes doing hollow things. How did that pupa feel, I wonder, trapped in darkness? No way out but forward. The growing pains, tendons and bones and muscles warping. Twisting and crawling but transforming, little by little. Into what, you can’t possibly imagine. The uncertainty, it’s almost as bad as the darkness. No change even when you open your eyes, like colours have frozen into little dizzying pixels. You can’t stop, but do you want to? On the precipice between weakness and a terrifying something else, what can you be but monstrous? Not one or the other but neither. What are you turning into? A butterfly? A monster? Neither? You can’t stop.
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Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021 at 2:39 AM UTC
Dysphoric dysmorphic euphoria
This useless meat sack. I am the thing watching behind the eyes of this empty meat sack. I am the one piloting this sausage of a body, directing it to walk, talk, smile. Sometimes I wish that I could reach into my chest and tear it open. I want to rip and tear and slice past the epidermis, watch the white fatty cells and veins and arteries moving. I want to see white, bone-white, a cage for my useless heart. Watch my heart pump like those sheep hearts we used to dissect in science. I remember how they looked, white fat clinging like ivy, and greying in the cool room of the labs. Nothing but a cold, clammy lump of flesh. Maybe death smells like the butchers. Like bleach that can’t cover the festering smell of rot and ammonia. I’m heavy on my ankles. I remember the last time I starved, and I felt as if I could fly, balanced on my tip-toes, poised to fall. And maybe falling felt just as good. It’s so unbearably soft. My chest, my arms. I can feel my cheek meat. Fat on bones. Scrape it out with a spoon like pork cheeks, soft, tender, delicious. A chrysalis. A cut-out, a hollow man wearing hollow shoes doing hollow things. How did that pupa feel, I wonder, trapped in darkness? No way out but forward. The growing pains, tendons and bones and muscles warping. Twisting and crawling but transforming, little by little. Into what, you can’t possibly imagine. The uncertainty, it’s almost as bad as the darkness. No change even when you open your eyes, like colours have frozen into little dizzying pixels. You can’t stop, but do you want to? On the precipice between weakness and a terrifying something else, what can you be but monstrous? Not one or the other but neither. What are you turning into? A butterfly? A monster? Neither? You can’t stop.
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i can feel the worms as they wiggle under my skull. i dig them out with tweezers, throwing them in a bowl. but the more i dig, the more there are no matter where i go, no matter how far. my brain turns to mush as the days go by my innards begin to rot and my corpse liquifies. what began as concern slips into terror. but i promise, i never meant to scare her.
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Jan 15, 2021
Jan 15, 2021 at 2:55 AM UTC
enterobius
Rotting means having your brain collapse in on itself in a grey gooey heap. It means your eyes falling apart and your tongue swelling up and bursting under the weight of a thousand maggots. It's cutting your stomach into ribbons and letting it shrivel into nothing. It's letting your bones wither and crack and your hair fall out and it means curling up into a dry dusty gooey broken slimy oozing ball. I think I'm rotting. Please help me. Please help me, I'm rotting.
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Sep 7, 2020
Sep 7, 2020 at 5:06 PM UTC
rotting
This body is not mine, Though I still see through it's eyes An image in my mind, But this likeness I do not find Denial, rejection; typically a body's traits, Somehow here in my soul, felt towards this flesh that frustrates Upon a mirror I gaze, I see a stranger's face Am I a ghost that haunts here? The previous Will erased? Am I attached to a past, That this body never had?
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Jul 12, 2019
Jul 12, 2019 at 5:57 PM UTC
I Am The Ghost
i think i might have a mole. my teeth are dug out of their rows. my tongue is pulled out at the root. my nails are shriveled up thorns, my wrists wilted bouquets of bones. my ribs metal jaws which enclosed something that bit off its foot. my skull’s overturned, seeds spilling out of the neck. what is a corpse but a flower bed?
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Jul 7, 2019
Jul 7, 2019 at 1:29 PM UTC
naturmort
You poke your horrible head out every once in a while. I can taste you on my tongue, rolling over my teeth disgusting and necrotic. You’re rotten. You crawl over me, a sick visceral feeling that settles on my guts, heaving me down to the floor. Weak and heaving. And so I Hurt myself. I’ll administer enough trust so it’s sure enough to bruise. hands over purpled skin revelling on the sensation. And so, I’m marred. It feels like a thousand prickly needles piercing me, just as you pierce my mind and every rational thought. I’m not sure you exist. I’m not sure you’re real; I’m not sure I’m real, either. You impale the basis of my being with such effortless strength, toppling pillars without a second look or regard. You make me want to ******* rip my eyelids clean off, I want the tainted ichor, once and for all to obscure my vision. And never clear. The gore corrupting my eyes So deeply they turn mildewy. decay away with the rest of me. I don’t want to see you. I don’t want to believe you exist. I will deny you. Deny you. Deny you. And deny you, once more.
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Apr 25, 2019
Apr 25, 2019 at 3:39 AM UTC
Visceral
I don’t focus much on death itself anymore, but what comes after. Whatever comes will be, and that is that. I cannot change it, and there’s no sense in agonizing over it. I like to imagine my body after the event, when I am no longer conscious, and the breath in my lungs have long dissipated like last season’s floral. Even though the chances are slim, I like to imagine being in the forest, surrounded by trees and flowers and perhaps a stream. I imagine a sort of time-lapse, my body collapsing inward, my skin peeling away, my hair wilting like autumn leaves. Mushrooms will grow beneath my fingers, wildflowers will tangle themselves within my hair and ribcage, blooms and blossoms of all colors will emerge through my chest. My bones will grow moss and Mother Earth will swallow me whole. Tree roots will wrap around me, engulfing me, pulling me towards themselves. I will be wanted, I will belong. Let me nurture you like you’ve done with me, let me help you grow and flourish into who you are to become, let me be your trellis, your shield, your hill. I will allow you to bloom such as you have me, and we will flourish together, life within death. It goes on, and it is peaceful. Where there is death or change, new growth awaits.
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Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 4:34 PM UTC
New Growth
My eyes were on my hands My freckles upgraded to bumps My nails dug in my face My elbows had replaced my knees My kidneys swapped places My hips found a home in my chest My teeth bit at my skull My whole spine flipped upside down My brain dropped to my feet My heart, soon enough, took its place And I ran from my fate Racing against what was unknown
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Dec 17, 2017
Dec 17, 2017 at 11:32 PM UTC
Fear
you touched your wrists to mine and a rash blossomed across my skin red and dry ran across   indigo hills fields of turned-over soil in the night-time to cool my strangled sweat to find a sink a light in the kitchen. im sorry, i promise i'll buy a slice i just need to use your sink, please. fluorescent-white heat i put the water on the hottest setting and i scrub and scrub, and scrub fast, and hard i rinse the raw i leave. when I wake up for all my scrubbing the rippling rash, the buds are still there under my skin. a lone fungal stalk of crimson a fruiting body rises from my wrist. this does not belong here like a broken bone bending in the wrong direction under the skin like the voice on the other end of the line this is not real
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Oct 21, 2015
Oct 21, 2015 at 11:27 PM UTC
ripple effect
tie me down crowing about a crown of flowers curl my palm into the hollow of your cheek (oh my god drown me) and here we have the soldier hands covered in blood and knives (and something else;but we don't talk about that) look how the blind man cries tonight see these bones on the grass frost building in the cavity between your ribs and your skin SCREAMING ****** IN THE HALLWAY (THIS IS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN HEAR YOURSELF THINK THIS IS THE ONLY WAY ANYONE KNOWS WHAT YOU ARE) you, love, you, goldfinch climbing windowsills creep in the dead of night, cicatrix spiderwebs here, here, here, in the small of your back (can you feel me, here, crawling into your skin?can you feel me sewing our palms together, goldfinch?) "and the world will revel in wonder and delight--"
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 7:25 PM UTC
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