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I bartered my soul away For the boy with wolf eyes He locked me behind his teeth He carved snake bites into my lips And tore apart the gilded edges of my lashes In an endeavor to uncover some semblance of my siren words He broke apart my ribs in an attempt To find my landmine heart Which held no sound

I am the girl who hides between moth eaten paper backs And slips into bookstores and devours leather bound spines I am chloroform lips bitten down, red and rosy Ink stained finger tips that fold book pages between my pupils I'm the girl who drowns herself in coffee and cough drops While remaining curled between Tennyson and Steinbeck Wasting days wondering why grass is green And how it can be greener for others and not I Then I realized its all artificial food colouring And polystyrene picket fences Sticky notes yellowed at the edges reminding myself how to smile I've pasted them on my skin in makeshift paper Mache armour But l