Jealousy

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Is it bad to be jealous?
I know it is, but it lingers.
Like a long lost shadow.
Im sown to my ankles.

Cast iron feelings, my
Ribbones snipped like poorly
Timed poultry wishes
I'd crack them all if I could

Spin my silvery sins then.
Unpick my lone loom, my love,
Keep my devoid of purgatory

Piled high upon piles of corpses
I would've been apples on burnt trees
I smell the burning.

And now I feel like a unchained saint,
Preaching my words of wisdom
The gospels of the Lord run down my tongue

I cut it out, the ambrosia,
And let the misguided miracles

Crater the hole in my face,
In the mirror, I try to meld faces

Slip eye sockets that roll into the back of my head
I morph, poor porcelin heads

The tweezers pull apart my macabre manifesto
And you become mine

Unfortunately.

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