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the cancer's taking over but i'm not sick

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Literature Text

crustacean,
claw your way through
the moon; amsterdam
will call you home,
you will not profess
your love to it ya que
no se preocupa por ti.

your lungs are greenhouses,
cigarettes from second-hand
smoke victims' corpses:

i
f  o  u  n  d
m  y  s  e  l  f
i  n
a
m  o  r  g  u  e  ;
w  h  i  l  e
d  i  g  g  i  n  g
a
g  r  a  v  e
f  o  r
y  o  u  ,
i
f  e  l  l
s  i  x
f  e  e  t
d  e  e  p
a  n  d
f  e  l  t
t  h  e
w  h  o  l  e
w       d
 o  l
 r
c o l l a p s e

i
n

on itself,

i cried in the shower months
ago, wasting oceans and
singing catastrophes to make
up for the loss of a hurricane's
life's work;

(we have always been so
sensitive, each word
like a fist fight from
years ago that i want
back, i want the danger,
i want the drama, i want
the lack of care; i want
to pretend to be that person
again

i was a sheep dressed in
wolves' fur but i was the
best damn sheep you'd ever
seen.)
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MetaphoricDragonfly's avatar
that was awesome!!!!!!!