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5/14/2019 2:05:53 PM Morgan Gaston Posts: 1	Patchwork fingertips My finger tips are a patchwork quilt my aniexty rips out the stiches The same hands you once held The same palms your so dearly caressed They now shake and tremble I scrape away my skin till it bleeds I chisel my nails away to nothing But this is better than releasing my veins This is better than starving my frame When I begin to notice the blue hue of my veins Or perhaps the rough bark of an oak alone the road Or even the height of a cliff I bite my lips I whittle away at my fingertips I chant this mantra over and over in my head "You will live through this" "You will live through this" And so I go pressing on through these "passing" moments For "passing" moments they are so terribly constant I can only hope that this patchwork quilt of a body will one day become a tapestry
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9/9/2019 9:19:37 PM Jack Webster Posts: 255	Really well done. Visceral. My fingertips actually ached and tingled. Rare I actually experience a palpable sensory detail from a poem. The title is flawless. The last two lines are ambiguous in a thought provoking way, so that is good. You might do a companion poem called The Tapestry.
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