flaked
raze
i
found
something
small
nesting
beneath
my
body
.
it
cleaved
itself
in
two
when
i
held
it
between
my
most
convenient
fingers
.
too
fragile
to
be
anything
i'd
lost
without
knowing
it
was
missing
.
it
took
a
minute
for
my
mind
to
catch
up
with
my
eyes
and
tell
me
this
was
just
a
piece
of
what
i
use
each
morning
to
make
myself
smell
less
like
me
,
flaked
off
of
the
hollow
under
one
arm
in
a
place
no
shoulder
could
have
been
.
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what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from