Skinless

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The music's loud.

It makes me

jump

right out of my skin.

I run over

and turn it down.

As I do,

I see the slightest reflection

of Jackson

on the stainless steel fridge.

"Oh, God.

It's really you.

Jackson.

You're here."

I feel him

move closer to me.

The smell of him

fills me up.

It makes the hairs on my arms

stand up straight.

"Can I touch you?" I whisper.

No answer.

I guess,

in order to

touch,

there has to be skin,

which a ghost

doesn't have.

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