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From Limbo, 23:17

graphic by kayleigh woltal

I hold my own hand in bed,
and she douses my ears with
songs of honey and lust. 

Our fingers interlock—
if I were to let go, if she
were to forfeit, I’d be nothing.
I’d have but five fingers and nothing more. 

I’m jealous of her dreams. 
Sometimes, if I get close enough, 
I can see them:
Dreams of success, sleeping
with another, yearning for
things that are not me. 

How selfish of me to want
Me all to myself. 

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