take a hike, body

slowbody

heavy body

can’t make it do anything body

can’t take it from any body

can’t move away from no body

tryna get some fresh air in the

nostrils of this

dang body

try to feel the breeze between

two cold feet on the 

metal body

fire escape body

might go somewhere nice body

somewhere where no one expects anything of this body.

somewhere where none dare to ever touch body

they might linger and stare but 

nobody will ever say

HEY, EVERYBODY!

look at this body!

twice timing, tongue tying

lying to everybody body

lying to itself body

always getting gone body

running on home, body

what you running from, body?

ain’t nothin’ in your own body to be so

scared of, body. 

only your own heart in that

thick slick of a 

cage, body

it’s screamin’ against you, body

it’s leanin’ into you, body, 

body, you’re all that heart has.

nobody else can have that heart unless they

rip it out of your body, body.

even then all your shivers will

touch that body too, body.

else

what was the point of that donor card,

body?

they want the pictures, body.

they want the drawings in all their slender lines

and their tender graphite, body

they say all that you embody

is just the picture of grace, body

but you feel so wide, body

so tired, body

such a homebody

just wanna hide body.

just wanna hide the body body.

lying dead body.

get well soon body.

full of holes body.

stole your parts body.

now they want art, body.

they took everything, body.

now they want art out of your parts, body,

                                                                ARE

YOU

GONNA

MAKE

IT?

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take a hike, body.