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Gridlocked mind

Sarah Lucille Marchant

i.

    There is something about the way trees bend to lick my Eyelashes and stick me together with wax. My senses flicker. Leaves brush my hair, scratching sounds harmonize with ever-present torture threats, and I do not recall choosing this route home as myself.

ii.

    Coral-colored tablet crunched between teeth: there are pills for insomniacs, yet nothing soaks through to chase away my shadows. Every supposed remedy allows the Dark to echo still.

iii.

    Surroundings juxtapose with these horrid images as radio static gnaws my eardrums away. If a mockingbird imitated my cries, the poor creature would make nightmares broaden out of gray, releasing the language the dead use for their lullabies.

iv.

    One night when I felt the most stable, they found me swimming in fire; later they told me I couldn't stop grinning as I watched my skin blossom into wounds. I have learned that I cannot find refuge anywhere, not even behind my own bones.

v.

    Nerves grate against mouth in hospital drip, and every offer of escape is a lie.



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