Vent

I want to crawl inside your skin

You will not let me, and I will beg and plead and cry for your attention

and you will turn away 

And my incessant whining will make even my own ears bleed

I will not care

We are apart for two weeks, is two weeks enough for insanity?

You seem fine

You stay unaffected

Yet I am pathetically writhing at your feet

Exposing my vulnerable stomach like the dumb dog I am

And you will not kick

And you will not look down

You will not even know you are stomping on my ribs

Crushing them like twigs under your boot

You don't even know it

You don't notice my slick blood on your black leather Docs

But I keep begging

Despite my cracked ribs

Despite my lower intestine tangling with your shoe

I smile

And I will keep begging for you

For a crumb of your affection

Because I am simply that pathetic

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