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Skin and Bones

Skin ripping from bones slowly, so slowly that it almost feels good. Leaving no flesh on the carcass. Bones creak at their first breath of air, while organs pulsate and throb in their new found freedom, all but the brain, which struggles in it's thick calcium crypt. It oscillates and shivers against solid walls, as needed fluid seeps away, through unnoticeable pores. Floundering on the bottom of it's pool, it drowns in the air filling it.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008




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