you take a leather belt, crack it across flesh,
and it has nothing to do with a body,
red, bruised, ready to bleed.
the leather wants to break you in two, the way it tries
to dig through the meat toward the bone and when you can feel
the bone through the skin, the sting of tears rising instantly…
you see yourself, this world
again, has it changed or have you?
(lucy?)
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