Mind Your Mind

2026

You'll find answers in my veins
if you dig through the slippery sinews
scar tissue and fascia and sweetmeats— 
Pry apart my radius and ulna
to see exactly what holds me together.
My skeleton shares stories. 
My blood spills secrets.

I'm losing my mind, piecemeal.
Each aberrant intrusive thought
incrementally more alarming than the last
so that I can measure my sanity
on a yard stick.
I've been too long
	         too long.
The silence whittles me sharp and short
for stabbing slashing slicing
shattering my mind into schisms.

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