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Fever Spill

the taught red skin wrapped her wrist like a ribbon; dim and so trimmed with disease. all bruised from a blood-let cephalic incision; she's thinned out and gnashing her teeth. departed in sin, packing cyst into vision; the brim is now flavored with grease. knee waning ceases along with derision; nodes flare and impair with a seize the solemn defend what is friend to infliction- a pick to their interlude fevered condition- it's pierced with precision all cinched by collision; efficient it crimps where she bleeds. a lachrymose feed into feral rescission; omniscient it pins down the seams

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Date: 2/18/2022 10:56:00 PM
for some context, this poem is about old, pretty much just making worse methods of medical procedure- specifically blood-letting. The poem follows a woman with some sort of fever who is being forcibly treated with these procedures; having her arms cut to drain blood, as well as various other marring suedo-surgeries. The poem describes different phases of her condition, the state of the operation area, and the denial presented by the men performing.
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