Thursday, October 20, 2022

a thousand cuts

i take the bandage off
the long
deep cut in my leg.

it's healing,
red and swollen, but
already

coming around.
i look at the scars on
my hands,

my arms, the bridge
of my nose,
ignoring,

the ones of the heart.
do we really die
of a thousand

small cuts?
is that preferable
to one swift blow?

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