Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Open scissors, inner thigh (cutter) ...



So then there was nothing:

No thoughts about the day.
No wondering if I deserve
to be here,       either way.

No flash to being mashed
flat on a car door, touched.
No emotions,    like fingers
still against me. Nothing much.

Just a gentle, whispering sting;
A warm salt drip of blood.
A dew drop bundled on a hair.
So innocent. So good.

Five or ten minutes   of   nothing.
Of every trailing thought pushed back.
And then (no...)    a.  little hateful voice
Crawls in. Carve one more line on the track.

                                   People who notice, say “Don't.”
                                                                        Or just stare
                    at the chorus of
        violin               strokes.
Pushing me               distant,

like a
              trailing
                                thought.

One        more               cut—
              could
              make
                                          them
                                            not.

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