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trace my veins with your fingernail
dig a canal of blood through my skin
dethrone rapid platelets
and leave me to bleed.

it takes one needle prick
to send me sprawling
sapping my own life essence

and your frigid breath could numb me
into bliss, but you are too far away —
standing just close enough
to toss salt on my wounds.

walk away as I sew myself back together
totter, stumbling, after you
and fall to pieces at your feet.