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Borrowed Body
I think my bed
Has bed bugs
That writhe and nip at my skin
They crawl under
My flesh
And bury themselves within.
They’ve made me look
Like someone else,
A body im not
Familiar with
Who has
Breasts and hips and legs
That wade the scarlet field beneath her.
She makes me green —
With disgust and
Red with rage but then
She paints me ill.
I want to rip and tear
At her soft
Satin chest and
Bite her arms till they bleed —
I want to claw my way
To her muscles and snip
At the soft red strings of her being.
I want to look like myself
To see long legs and
Broad shoulders.
But the bed bugs has made me
Someone I don’t know,
And she smiles at me in the mirror.
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