Garbage

Like junk, like bruises, nothing precious, boop. 

Garbage is just junk in a network from dead (or living) people. 

The funky unraveling.  
I could be mentally ill except…
Mudslides. 

Old magazines are not much older than me. 
And yet, only one of us needs air. 
That’s the magazines, I don’t need invisible stuff like air. 

Cloaked in medicine. 
The mossy rocks in my head. 

Garbage is collected every day because…

Otherwise we would bruise for real.
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