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She lived in a land of marshes
where the reeds cracked gently in the breeze and whispered sad dying songs
and fell asleep beneath the still water.
It was her duty to push them into the depths when they had ripened,
their hollow spines snapped beneath her slimy fingers as she folded them.
On occasion she would dip her head into the watery thickness and
she chewed them like thick bamboo stems until her teeth wore down.
She built nests on the city rooftops,
fragile nests that broke apart and blew away in the afternoon rush.
She tried to re-build the city,
a city of reeds and rice paper and berries,
but she was shunned,
and her vision faded in the smogsong.
Her lungs began to fill with a thick tar that ripped her open when she breathed
like paper cuts in her alveoli.
And her ribs began to creak and crack and fold
and snap into her tarry innards
sinking like a stoic ship,
until the final bubble broke the surface
just like when she cut the final reed in the marshes.
where the reeds cracked gently in the breeze and whispered sad dying songs
and fell asleep beneath the still water.
It was her duty to push them into the depths when they had ripened,
their hollow spines snapped beneath her slimy fingers as she folded them.
On occasion she would dip her head into the watery thickness and
she chewed them like thick bamboo stems until her teeth wore down.
She built nests on the city rooftops,
fragile nests that broke apart and blew away in the afternoon rush.
She tried to re-build the city,
a city of reeds and rice paper and berries,
but she was shunned,
and her vision faded in the smogsong.
Her lungs began to fill with a thick tar that ripped her open when she breathed
like paper cuts in her alveoli.
And her ribs began to creak and crack and fold
and snap into her tarry innards
sinking like a stoic ship,
until the final bubble broke the surface
just like when she cut the final reed in the marshes.
Got my old laptop up and running decided to browse through my old writing folders. Found this from 14th June 2011. I must have disliked it or something since I never used it.
Haven't edited it, just posting it as I found it, flaws and all.
Haven't edited it, just posting it as I found it, flaws and all.
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