Gnarly spindles

Mitochondrially dense

mighty muscles

Contracting and releasing; contracting and releasing

You know no one wants you here

Liver and left kidney talk shit about you all day

Gallbladder skipped town

Lazy bastard Pancreas is MIA

Uterus abandoned me long ago,

Taking my favorite ovary

And I’m still here

Broken and shuddering

Counting each beat

At the first slap of morning

And don’t tell me about metaphors

And fricking resilience

That’s hallmark malarkey you picked up from Brain

and there’s no trusting what’s left of her

Read the room dear heart

Shuttered capillaries, dust-caked lungs

Nerves threadbare and forlorn

foreclosure signs written in every wrinkle

Yet here we are

Contracting and releasing

thumping in the hollow of a cage

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