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this is a warning.

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i.
The first thing you need
to know about people is this:
we're shitty.

ii.
If you cut off our head,
we will grow two in its place.
We will divide and conquer
until there's nothing left
but tiny gaping mouths,
clacking and salivating
at the crumbs of an empire.

iii.
They tell me hurt is like
a paper cut:
quick and forgotten,
forgotten.

They're wrong.

Hurt is the first step
off a balcony,
the first gasp
in a chain reaction
screaming from the railing
to beyond the pavement.

When I finally hit the ground,
I looked up and saw my halo
dangling from the edge,
dented.

iv.
We cycle.
He said, she said,
I wanted, he lost, she won,
I ruined this, I broke your heart,
he left me,
I miss you.

This is nothing new.

Your tragedy is always
someone else's.
Tell me,
what's it like to realize
every slash on your soul
has an identical twin?
What's it like to know
you're going to die
the same way everyone does:
scared and alone?

v.
We are disposable.
The hydra grows.
Humanity trembles,
and still I am trying to remember
how it all started,
how this pain in my neck
became a monster.
idk man. i don't even know if this made the point i wanted it to. i tried.

i'm two parts pissed off and one part upset, and i keep thinking about how easily people change their minds. fuck.

sorry for not being around. i've been writing a lot but my life's kinda a mess atm. i took honors classes this year and it's sucky. and i got dumped i guess??? whatever. sorry, i know my inbox is a mess and i'm so shitty at replying, but i just wanted to post something so you all know i'm still a member of the "alive and breathing" club.

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