fingernails are no match /
for the thick morning air /
blood is a lie /
explained songsingly at birth /
that joy has a cutting price slicing slowly/
taking decades to cleave the body in measured halves /
one for chewing gravel from the family driveway /
one for leaking bodily fluids towards the pacific drainage basin /
where tarantulas shake still /
those halves before us tear us /
towards their own rend /
hoping for the whole they first slept in /
in the dark /
listening to the full thump /
of the world outside
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