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5 c a r t i L a g e , c a r t i L a g e careful like a candle i always harden back into myself and am reshaped, maybe, but alive. i have walked through fires and swung kitchen knives like a specialist in heat. i have slept through natural disasters and band practices only to dream of growing up to be a designer of lackluster bridges. Bring me blindfolded to the candy store and make me tongue the walls. Put taffy in my hands, whisper cartilage, cartilage. The consistency of matter is only a matter of packaging, the dense and swarm of flesh, musculature. i am bloat and barrel. i am a series of mouths that do not need watering. This bark, this patina, is the only anchor i drag across the dirt. ...

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