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[for Bobby and Ali]

I’m a jellyfish with no heart and no brain floating through the vast ocean and causing sharp pains to any poor sucker dumb enough to touch me. I’ve got no ears to hear nor eyes that can see. The clock likes to mock me with its three middles fingers, spinning so cruelly leaving most moments sick blurs. The calendar plays, too, throwing pages in my face, reminding me I've done nothing for years but take up space. I've been waiting for the spring to thaw the winter of my bones but I'll get overheated when summer comes along and wait for the autumn to cool me off proper until I get too chilly. Are you seeing the pattern? I’m a firefly existing to entertain those on the outside of my glass jar display case and out of anyone, friend, I know how you feel plus the words you can’t say because your lips are sealed. And your heartbeat deafens you as you pull off her dress and you push her down onto your ratty mattress and she senses the heaviness in your sick head, says “I don’t want to do this if you feel like you’re dead” and you lie to her because, hey, you might as well and her body quakes as you invade all her cells and she sits there looking like a hot number eight with a perfect round ass and the smallest of waists and bubbles float down when there is no wind and you can’t put out of your mind yourself as a kid because it was the only time when you were ever happy. I long for ears to hear and eyes that can see.

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