#1
Just how far can you take this?
How deep into skin and flesh
can you slice before you stop, gasp?
How long can you go sleeplessly
before you collapse on the bed,
hair splayed, unmoving, sick?
Just how much of yourself
can you incinerate and still exist?
How much of you is excess,
useless bits that you can carve away?
How small a shape can you whittle
yourself down to if you learn
to deny yourself everything, every day?
Try it. You can so easily
grasp all the answers
that you crave.
Just let yourself stand
on tiptoes at the very edge,
now rocking forward, now rocking back.


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