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i am going to take
my fleshy wasted heart
and pry away all vestiges
of sinewy tendrils
suffocating like snakes
wrapped around paralyzed prey.
I will not ask -
but offer up, silently,
this human self
for crushing
with hopes I will be heard.
I am going to extinguish
every pinpoint of light
in the expectation that
deep dark night
will preserve.