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My Glowing Pet

Posted by Whom
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Glowing friend, your light
has given me
everything I know.
To run you require
a sacrifice

I click open my knife
forgotten forever in the drawer with the butterfly yo-yo,
the heart necklace of an immature love
and the compass
with the atomic symbol.

With the blade I
etch
and cut
and stab
to draw sand
from the glass
long left unflipped.

It slides along your surface
sinks in
and is gone.

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    On the Disappearance of My Pet That Once Glowed My friend I no longer can nourish you with the grainy milk that others feed to your factory-brothers As you shrivel and your smooth glass loses its...

    On the Disappearance of My Pet That Once Glowed

    My friend I no longer
    can nourish you
    with the grainy milk
    that others feed
    to your factory-brothers

    As you shrivel
    and your smooth glass
    loses its glow

    I look elsewhere

    or try to but I can't
    help but turn my head
    as the escaping
    luminescence
    shrieks out a pinhole
    so I throw you in the drawer
    where I left her heart
    and walk away

    until your screaming
    finally ends.

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