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“Shrapnel Face”

It’s that smile —

It’s that smile that really scares me

As the eyes splay out

In abysses of unfeeling malaise

Like dark black vacuums

That plunge you depths of

Inhuman torpor.

 

It is a being

That consumes wine but does not get drunk,

Shoveling shelves of panic

On to your sun,

 

It is a being that,

Below it all,

Wishes it were you,

Wishes it could be you,

For one second,

 

Could feel and be human and

In lethal desperation,

It laughs up dust and daggers.

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