bloodletting

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Bloodletting
last night I sat in my room
playing with razor sharp words
and a dull pencil
when I noticed my sadness
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                                               where it pooled in
                                                   thick dense puddles
                             like slick blue grease
                                 staining my desk
                                     spreading
                                         until a thin ocean of sorrow

                             coated the varnished wood
                                 and began
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                                                               to the carpet

so I made a cup with my hands,
gathered the cool melancholy in the cradle of my palms,
sieved the smooth inky blueness into an empty glass.
and bandaged my wrists
with notebook paper

two days later I submitted my self injury for comments

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