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Outgrowing
When you get out of bed in the morning
You shrink your feet to fit the flip-flops
When you eat your cereals
You shrink your stomach to feel you're full
When you dress up
You shrink your body to wear that pale coat
You shrink your colors because this season's trend
Is pale
When you go out
You shrink your thoughts to suit your pals
You shrink yourself to fit all those places
You hav...
Sunday 14th March 2021 7:16 pm
Fingerprints
your fingertips are pulsing
from all that touchlessness
where do you leave your fingerprints
when no human skin is around?
your hands sniff touch
sniff skin
and they find you
tangled being, hanging plant
with your roots in the clouds
you touch yourself and discover
that you have human skin
below your mind's weeds
underneath you vegetal body
so you i...
Thursday 11th March 2021 4:55 pm
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