Yde Girl

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The earth swallowed me but it forgot to chew

Stewing in stomach acid, soused sixteen

Life was the blink of an eye—Death, a deceptive dream

I slept under the carpet where you swept me

With the souls of the moss in purgatory 

Until they cut my hair and stole my teeth  

 

Who knit the noose around my neck?

Who pulled it taut and stole my breath? 

 

Oh, what does it matter? 

 

Let me sleep.