Recoiling

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Slowly,
I have begun
to cut the strings
that attached me
to the doorbell
outside my house
and the keys
in the ignition
because
I cannot stand
to wander past
the frame of
the front door
and continue
to loathe
whatever pieces
I lose
beyond it.

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