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Prosaic-Scriptor — Imprisoned
Published: 2009-12-10 04:54:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 588; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 6
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A bone corsetwraps around my shrunken chest -
each withered piece stabbing out from
transparent flesh,
straining at flimsy, purple-pale trappings
that encase them in fragility.
I am concave -
its ivory prison no longer bars my
filigreed, striated organ,
only the silky balloons of deflating lungs.
(it makes me bigger to breathe so I will not
I will not)
How much
does a heart weigh?
I lost so much weight
when it left.
And now, daggers jut from my hips, protrusions lying white
against tracing paper (can you draw my veins through the glass?)
I touch them and wonder
at the deadly-sharp angles,
horrendous and beautiful -
a butterfly (knife),
snap out and spread your shiny (metal) wings.
But there's a demon inside of me -
mean, cruel, fat, fat, fat.
Stealing the wings, their brittle osseous tissue,
she hides them under
blubber, pus-colored infectious-toxic-disease fat.
(How can I fly
if I am too heavy?)
The squishy adipose chains
tether me to the dank, hard ground,
holding me with slimy claws that rake over
my beautiful bones -
can't she see that over the rainbow I'll
be free?
When all the yellow-sludge
sloughs off I will rise up;
my delicate tiny toes will dance me
into the pristine sky and beyond,
up in the wispy air where I
will drift in hazy beauty.
And the air will smell sweeter
because I will be
pretty.
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Comments: 5
Positively haunting.
It's the two words "beautiful bones" that really threw the final punch home on this one...the idea that, to such a perception, absolute skeletal nothingness is perceived as desirable.
Second stanza from the bottom is nightmarishly brutal.
Beautiful portrayal of an unbeautiful thing.
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Thank you for commenting (sorry it took over a year to a reply.) Your comments were very insightful and touching.
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That was one of the most terrifying pieces i've ever read, the scariest part is for a lot of people ... that is their whole life. their existence.
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Thank you. Sorry the reply came a year late.
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