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Exoskeleton ( or Pretentious)

Green bilge:

Insect shells grows heavy,
so plump
no longer husk.

Thick medicine
trickling down the abdomen,
so viscous; not possible
to swallow.

Decapitated antennae,
scattered eyes and maws:

'Spasm mindless insect
and endure.'


Written by Donchonorgo (Louis Lee Warner)
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