i. how to disappear in 2 steps
this unspoken kind of f a d i n g away
is done during smog summer sighs
with an unspoken tail tucked
between
legs neatly folded like paper planes
when you're soon to be just a name / just a face / just a wash away
when everyone but you forgets
about you
this kind of f a d i n g away
is easy when the heat m
e
l
t
s
away
your parched skin and lets gushing
blood s l i p through barren bone
vessels and this kind of withering
away is easy when you paint yourself into your room wall
this kind of fading is easy when
you are everything and nothing
and all in-between.
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ii. mid-june
it is mid june and their familiar
eyes sweep over your nibbled skin
and feeble trembling lips
so you wrap yourself in vegetable
or fruit in the local grocery
store by the road and you
dissolve into your shoe soles
because
BEING SEEN IS SUCH A DISEASE
it is mid june and the heat
feel likes hell on earth so you
drift away like leaves in the
autumn or snow during winter
or pattering rain during monsoon
