Long yellow phantom fingers slide over your shoulders<\/p>\n
Ghostly mouths cry from your arms<\/p>\n
Ribs are slivered, silvered, glinting, teeth inside white skin<\/p>\n
Seething with each breath, searing you<\/p>\n
But you are silent<\/p>\n
Or did you try to tell us<\/p>\n
In those days so still. Stiff arms, stuck legs<\/p>\n
Didn’t I know, though?<\/p>\n
And then there’s the laughter to consider<\/p>\n
Was there someone, red-angry, sucked dry — a human scab — held you down, bashed your chest<\/p>\n
While a hundred blind eyes turned back to their Day<\/p>\n
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