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Penmanship
She drags the pen across the page
Back, forth
Back and forth
Ink begins to pour from the page
Seeping out through lacerated pores where the pen
was dragged.
It sticks- adhesive- to her skin, and melts into her,
tattooing patterns across her hands, and draining into her arms,
Shattered fragments from the page
Stamped- stagnant, dead- onto her living skin-
emulating life.
Feeding.
She is
decrepit, decaying, desiccated skin
torn up by the jagged ink- stained steel,
Yet the ink persists-
drip, drop, trickling off the page,
puncturing the ripped flesh-
burning the remaining skin
Causing it to blister and swell- adding red to the
pattern.
Fragments of text peel white and fall-
dust to the ground.
The arm now fire- red, black, and blue blend-
blurring brown
She is
becoming broken
Broken by the pattern she bears.
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