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[aid] => Mick
[title] => Wire
[time] => 2003-05-05 07:05:00
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[bodytext] => Barefoot.
I stepped upon a fishing hook. Your barbed question set to catch me out. Broken skin. A guilty cut and clean. But quietly I smoothed over the wound; so it was never there. We went back to how we were. Didn’t know the faithful hook caught fast With spider’s cord spun, spooling from the clasp. Didn’t know, didn’t notice the gnawing wire stretch, Coiling round blood cables, clamping on my breath. Reeling. You unconsciously begin to reel me in. My absent minded friend, you forget your trap. I forget the biting hook And wonder why I feel the tug when you are far away. Metal scythes through simple flesh: Internal bleeding when you wrench Your hook and chain, catching in my blood. Silence. So I must live in this pretence Ignore the cutting wire cocoon Poisoning the blood, making me sick. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 165 [topic] => 43 [informant] => child [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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