little machine

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The tips of my fingers feel like dry sandpaper. They look like sponges whenever they get wet. The little black dots of past pokes and past milking of blood haunt me.

I wait for my number to arrive. I chew my finger softly, an old habit I never got rid of, awaiting if my efforts were truest readings given to me by a little machine.

That little machine scares me.

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