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enjoy this writing from Ted Jackinsn in the Scars free 2013 PDF file chapbook: when the World was Black and White    (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2013 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the cover spread for the book when the World was Black and White

By Now, I Should Be Used to the Rolling Blackouts

Ted Jackins

Guilty bloodstains
line nervous sentence
fragments,
as I crack a comma
in half and carve a
question mark into
my arm,
letting little streams
of red tape spill out
with which to hang myself,
and now there are scars
all along my paper thin edges,
as the pen tip was far
too sharp and it sank
right through the surface,
cutting away to the roots
of depression’s bitter
incisors,
the same ones which
chomp down with such
brutal force upon
my brain stem,
breaking my vision
before suspending me
in total darkness
for weeks on end.

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