AM I REAL

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‘The Incredulity of St. Thomas,’ embroidery by Colleen Davies. Find them on twitter @colleen_daves or at their website for prints and commissions.

AM I TWO RIPPED AND SEWN MOTH WINGS |
AM I ONE SLAB OF MARBLED MEAT |
is this scorched paper body folded all wrong,
for you, for you, for you, for you,
for you, for you, FOR YOU, FOR YOU
I CUT MY LIMBS IN MEASURED PIECES
TRYING TO FIT IN THE GLASS CYLINDER
YOU FASHIONED | my organs are cloudlike,
kissing with the softest rainlips
under my translucent skin. you see? I submerge.
I shed silver. feldspar flakes off my fist.
this was never about a body. I bite my cheek and mars shivers.
saturn orbits me and I wear his rings.
hang me up in the cooler by my bare ankles
somehow i'll slip through your fingers
and display my flayed marble in the streets.
for you?? baby This Fucking World Is Rippling In My Eyelid.

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