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Poison Brain
She sits cross legged in the dark
Humming poisonous lullabies
Fingers caressing her prison bars
She could easily cut through them with her sharp
fingernails
But she likes looking through them
At the invisible guards
Sometimes she breathes in secondhand smoke
from cracks in the ceiling
She likes the scratchy feeling in her lungs
Sometimes she sees the sky through the cracks
A rotting green
The unsteady clouds look like little white pills
Like the ones she used to swallow
execpt those wern't round
they were all jagged
they hurt going down
No matter how much of the Atlantic she swallowed
And at night when the sky turned
blood-red, she ate matches
previously lit.
She liked the way the burning fire smoked its way
down her stomach.
Only for the smoke to pour out of her eyes
Only for her to wake up again
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I was thinking about what it would be like to be trapped inside your own brain and how dark that could be for people.