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a shell of squandered skin

May 16, 2015
By jessy0361 PLATINUM, Lenoir, Tennessee
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"There are no happy endings, because nothing ever ends." -The Last Unicorn

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it rumbles

with acid because

i will not give it what it wants

it screams through

the white noise

reminding me that

wasting away

comes with the price of dying

but i was dead before you even

tried to kill me.

© Maybelle L., Richmond Hill, ON, Canada

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