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fallingundone
I am a cat, and for all intents and purposes, I don't exist.
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fallingundone in Poetry & Free Verse
20 reads

arterial spray

my heart pumps away

industrious little thing

and with each another arc

oil splatters across the scene

stains all it touches

leaves fingers and minds sticky

a little too slippery with thoughts

the birds are matted with it

their freedom gone

struggling to float

in my arterial spray

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fallingundone in Poetry & Free Verse
16 reads

autumn withers,

and i with it

a single leaf flutters down,

and a snowflake follows

the wind howls in my chest,

and the sun sets soon.

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fallingundone
10 reads

i curse him to see.

the demand to share the terrible truth will not let me shut my mouth. let me spill, let the blood dry, iron crusting under your nails, i will not let you look away. you have brought me here and you will pay, you will pay in my blood, and you will watch, i will stain your soul, i will drench you in blood and you will never wash yourself clean. look into my eyes as the waters rise, see the despair you have never felt, and let her cold hands stroke down your neck, shoulders, back, she will hold you. let the absence of breath raise the hairs on your neck, let the prey become the predator. i will shatter you. i will flood you with death and you will drink of her draught. i will flood you with animal fear and you will not struggle, you will wilt under my gaze and we will burn. i am nothing and neither are you. hold me and i will show you the void, hold me and i will show you my pain. i will give you the underbelly, i will give you the knife, cut me apart and i will show you, cold and slick and revolting, you will learn the touch of death. i will guide your hands to my slaughter and you will watch me die, you will never be clean again. i will stain your soul, i will fill you with sinful blood. you will look into my eyes and see my despair, you will remember it forever, it will become yours. you will hold my gaze and hold my despair and you will drown with me. this is your indictment. you will hold the knife, and you will see your guilt. for you have sinned.

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fallingundone
11 reads

packaged for your convenience, vulnerable and declawed...

don’t you ever want to tear it apart, flash your fangs? feral pet.

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fallingundone in Poetry & Free Verse
18 reads

seeing is creating

the visible body, the visible body,

it is visible, it is visible.

look away from this gasping fish

the quivering throat and all its arteries.

look away from this violent ocean,

breaking beauty into waste.

look away from this sack of lard

marker of burdensome womanhood.

look away from me,

look away from me,

stop seeing me.

don't stop, don't stop, don't stop.

if you don't see me, i'm not real,

it won't be real.

take your eyes off

and take "me" away.

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fallingundone in Poetry & Free Verse
21 reads

linoleum gouges

dig my nails

into my arm

drag them down slowly

peeling behind their trails

strips of blank

yellowed gray

faded, faded

and pouring red

all i feel is

raw linoleum

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fallingundone in Stream of Consciousness
15 reads

the background radiation

of my own pervasive misery

touches every corner

of my universe.

the suffering continues.

it always does.

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fallingundone
7 reads

i wish i could take you to heaven when you die

yet we were born in dusty ash, raven rain...

if only our destiny was higher than the bottom of the well-

perhaps our funeral shrouds could be pearlescent

rather than what we drown in now.

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fallingundone
6 reads

i’m spilled.

everything is tainted

because everything is me.

they sank their fingers in.

the darkness bled from all their nails

and leeched into my veins.

ink balloons in bathtubs

getting out stained.

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fallingundone in Micropoetry
14 reads

...and the seasons sigh

as time sways by.

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