I've become toxic
to myself,
in my own viens
the burn
of poison
the flash of words.

Its a season
of destruction,
a plague of bones
over my own fields..

I infest myself
with insect desecration,
a spreading of
my own skeleton
outwards and
inward.

A mutilation
of my own ambition,
my own mutation.

06/19/2003

Posted on 06/20/2003
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