Part 172

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You wish you could stop

biting the skin of your lips

until they bleed,

and the scabs on your skin.

You don't even know

you're doing it.

Bruised like an apple,

something people

don't want to bite into -

yet you have teeth marks

everywhere.

You're rotting away.

You try to polish yourself,

make the red shine.

But oh, 

my darling,

it already does.

Can't you see 

it's spilling out of you?

It's all over the floor.

What have you done?

tears on your skin and from your eyes

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