“
Before, I let a blade slide itself sharp against me. Look at where I once bloomed red and pulsing. A keloid history. I have not forgotten the knife or that I loved it or what it was like before: my unscarred body visits me in dreams and photographs. Maybelove, I barely recognize it without the armor of its scars.
”
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“
Let me say it plain: I loved someone,
and I failed at it. Let me say it another way:
I like to call myself wound,
but I will answer to knife.
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