VENA CAVA

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abhorrent intricacies
are trapped inside
the shells we call
b o d i e s;

encapsulated
in vesicles
and programmed
to live forever.

and maybe that's why

my poetry-laced blood
is spiked with little
ciphers that decode themselves
and unravel
only in the eyes of the

skeletal carcasses
and dead-eyed
beings

who don't know

who they are

a n y m o r e.
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