10.28.22

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sandpaper

you rake at
my heartstrings
until the arteries
and veins, my
net of blood
vessels, can no
longer pump on
their own
and yet, you
still yell and shriek
at me to stop
being stupid and
sensitive, as you
hold the sandpaper
in your bloodied,
cruel, ugly,
hands

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