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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