Monday, May 23, 2022

it's good for me

as a child i'd faint
at the sight
of a gleaming doctor's
spike,
the needle approaching
an arm,
or leg,
or bottom.
full of good stuff,
something
to keep me alive a little
while longer.
but i've grown used
to the puncture,
the slight
bite of pain. it's for
my own good, i tell myself,
with each
new wound that follows.

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