Literature
m a c h i n e
I eat your words like poison
t e a r i n g up my insides
as it enters my system, boiling like too much
acidic blood in my veins.
A massacre of holy tissue
a sacred piece of life force
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without cause and without
proper burial.
I am like an engine, running off
your fire, as you pump
mountains of coal into my lungs.
My aluminum heart burns
only for you, my destroyer,
and I am just scraps of metal
and hair and bone, a machine
with faulty parts.