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Oct 30, 2009
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Masochistic?
Masochistic?
The tunnel was slick with light.
It was the deepest red she had ever seen....
Seven colors had been crushed together to make it.
The girl was washed down
On a tide of someone else's pain.
Sharply, she saw that she was covered in blood,
And started to scream.
.
Hush,
The tunnel said,
The blood isn't yours,
It isn't yours
It isn't yours.
.
.
[During the day,
You will see a woman walking through the tunnel,
Tearing at the walls
With hands worn to pearl
Ask her what she is doing.
"I mine this tunnel for pain;
She will say.]
— Diatom Shells, Oct 30, 2009
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lyz
16 years 7 months ago
Dear Shells
Dalton
16 years 7 months ago
Dear Diatom
Nordic cloud
16 years 7 months ago
"With hands worn to pearl":-