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Peaches: A Poetic Excerpt From My Novelette Papercuts by Frasier Quail

 Peaches 

 Mostly, I am a sponge.

A sack of bones, collected, sharply prodding, 

Held together by this spongy mass of muscle and tissue;

Viscera. 

I am a breathing spore

[sponge] 

 Respirating 

 [sponge] 

 Growing 

[sponge] 

 Absorbing 

 Wet and crackling, I expand and contract. 

 What will be my physical story, told? 

 Multiply, grow 

 Disease, decay 

 Deceased, desist. 

 Leaves Break down; 

First, 

 The webbing between,

Then the rest. 

 “Time claims all.” And all become soil; 

Earth. 

 And I see it in my veins 

In the patterned wrinkles of my skin 

That I am the same as 

 [all of it] 

 An avocado, 

 A peach, 

 A growth.

A mass of veined, fleshy tissue. 

 I, too. 

 And like attracts like 

 So I mush together; 

 Teeth scrape pit. 

 Flesh presses, mashes flesh. 

 Your fuzzy peach skin, 

 Thin and tender; 

 Now torn to pieces. 

 FORCED 

Through pink undulating 

Squish. 

 Down 

 Down 

 Down 

 I swallow you up. 

Drop into my pit of acid. 

Now we are one.

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