reassurance

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my skin

no longer

has your name

written over it


yesterday i took

a shower and

watched you drain

with it


this paper skin

your hands tried

to slip

so quickly under

i've now reconstructed

into armor

you no longer have

any entrance here

you never belonged here


a year of shriveled

fingers and toes

and my skin no longer

screams

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