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by Nicole Cummings

Those poisons.

swearing,

                                                    drinking,

                      smoking,

                                                                           cutting,

we say we will never do these things,

but as we grow up, we let our words

slip, we take a sip, we try it once,

we wonder if pain will pour out of our arms like it lives in our blood,

we eventually try to find out.

 

We don’t think life will catch up to us

like that but right now, I’m drunk,

staring at my scars, and the only thought I have is

 

“fuck.”

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