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look in the mirror
touch a face that isn't yours
cut your hair
razor burns
cross my legs
hope to die
you can take the skin i shed
wear it like a trophy necklace
you can cut my body open
take the refuge that i’ve bled
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i wanted more
i wanted more than this
shallow water pools around our ankles
pulling us down
and weightless—
it’s sink or swim
and i choose to sink
the natural tendency to reduce
the energy in a system
the principle of least action
governs all observable phenomena
my body traces the geodesic
against a riemannian manifold
of what it could have been
reducing it's too lagrangian
it lies in the lowest point of
a townhouse in the west end
engaged in layman's pharmacokinetics
(estradiol, nicotine
and the occasional benzodiazepine)
a desperation hums at 60hz
its overtones discovering resonance
in the hollows of my body
a cathedral calling its parish
a mind in motion remains in motion
unless acted upon by an opposing force
a mind at rest stays at rest
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our bodies will fail
and our bones turn to dust
like a garden of aircraft
our frames growing rust
our bodies will fail
our bones turn to dust
rest into the ocean
our frames growing rust
when i was younger
marked years on my wrist
like rings on an oak tree
like years caving in
when i was younger
marked years on my wrist
and now i am older
the years crashing in
when i was younger
marked years on my wrist
and now i am older
the years crashing in
our bodies will fail
our bones turn to dust
rest into the ocean
our frames growing rust
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i can't wait forever
i can't wait forever
i'll meet you in the next life
wait for me in the next life
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a girl is a knife
02:56
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i didn't think that
it'd end up this way
metamorphosize
bleed the needle dry
how i choose to live
how i choose to die
philosophers have hereto interpreted the world
the point is to change it
a girl is a knife
a girl is a knife
a girl is a knife
a girl is a knife
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a girl is a knife
photo by ryan ulc
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