u/GreenTeaBookshop

Everything's for sale
Search the aisles, it's all a bargain
You can get a lot for a penny
Twice as much if you smile

Grappling, searching, holding it close to your chest
Consuming to fill your needs
What does it require? Just a kind word
I'm easily convinced

This one has brown hair
So scalp her and try again
Remember it's all for sale - take whatever you want

All that's left over here is contemplative immolation
Not the highest quality, but think of the possibilities

There isn't a part that hasn't been used
Given up, tattered and worn - it can't serve its purpose if it's broken

Everything's for sale - hurry before the best is taken
Stock is replenished more timely if you still say thank-you, offer a gesture of kindess
So the shelves don't stay empty for long

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Tw/body image

Shift the mindset, shift the weight
Convince the scale, slot your fingers between your ribs
Drum on your collarbone as you contemplate

It's not about you - it's me, always me
I don't care how you look
I want to look better

Better is accomplished in every faint heartbeat
Moments of fog, of weakness, of illness - puking, shaking
I drum on my collarbone harder
My new heartbeat

Wasting away everything but my day
Disgusted by everything but the way my spine bleeds through my skin

When do you quit?
Four stone, seven pounds
Or is that not a test?
Can my mind not conquer more?
They say if there is no god then I am my own god
Unlimited and unrestrained - I can't be held back by worldly ideals

I will know when my heart stops beating as I will no longer feel the drumming on my collarbone

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