Disease


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Drawing of red eyes.

"I fear I will be ripped open and found unsightly"
-Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters


Affection is spring water
and I’m an animal
foaming with rabies.
like the monkey on my back.

I’ll let you enter me
like a vaccine too late,
sex is the antidote
often wasted on me.