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Pull it apart at the seams And watch it unravel at your feet Then take what’s left and make it what you want it to be Take what’s theirs and leave what’s yours but yours is used and theirs is new Make theirs the best it can be then pull it apart at the seams I want to send spiders down your spine I want to send worms down your throat I want to put snakes in your feet I want to put lice in your hair And I want you to feel them crawl in your skin like they do in mine I forgot that when I fell into the sea what I found there I couldn’t see for as far as I looked I couldn’t find my head so I painted it And I grounded my feet into the sky And I flew my head into the dirt and what I found there were bugs and I said hi there but they didn’t say it back instead invited themselves into my body they let themselves into my body And now they’re crawling in my skin they’re crawling And I can’t get them out no matter how I try how I try And they’re feeding in my veins and when they’re done I think they might leave me

if I’m there for them to leave me I want to leave me can’t I leave me? until they stole from my skin And left me hanging from a tree that can’t bear to hold me much longer how much longer can I breathe? would you allow it? or would we suffocate in our own bodies?

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