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Hand on My Heart: Shhhh

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By Paul Aaron DomenickPublished 3 months ago • 1 min read
Hand on My Heart: Shhhh
Photo by Federico Bottos on Unsplash

You. You.

Leave the room less.

Shell is my body. Are you?

No.

Magnetsresistingrepel

My god, you left your coffee cup on the counter

g o n e

Your scent (violent)

Hold on, Body

Topography of room: one-shot man

In other chair

The air

Smoke rises from the painting across

On the shelf: fellow vertebrata (merely ink)

Litter on the floor: empty bags

Crooked chair: map of your body 25 miles away

Whirring fan, rousing cats, traffic outside: Fuck you all

At ten o’clock: ultrasound for clots

Clotted am I

Sans

Beginningsendings

Interpretation (nil)

But now: inward Eye must

Hand on my heart: Shhhhhh

Free VerseStream of Consciousness

About the Creator

Paul Aaron Domenick

I write to break the psyche in half. What good are words unless they turn us upside down and shake us?

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    Written by Paul Aaron Domenick