the impurities

By palesiren

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this is not pretty // this is not clean More

i. bee stings
ii. orange
iii. diary
iv. forest
v. peaches
vi. fatal
viii. violence
ix. daffodils
x. barbed wire
xi. dresses
xii. poison
xiii. myself
xiv. moth
xv. masquerade
xvi. broken
xvii. infested
xviii. color
xix. sidewalk
xx. crushed
xxi. friends
xxii. wilderness
xxiii. tombstone
xxiv. coffee stains
xxv. creation
xxvi. deserving
xxvii. dandelions
xxviii. silent
xxix. reduction
xxx. decay
xxxi. walls
xxxii. dirty liar
xxxiii. jupiter
xxxiv. death rattle
xxxv. rituals
xxxvi. sacrifice
xxxvii. desert
xxxviii. ghost
xxxix. safety pins
xl. ponytails
xli. sun-dried lies
xlii. missing
xliii. summer
xliv. desolation
xlv. buttermilk
xlvi. bandages
xlvii. starvation
xlviii. tempest
xlix. peach pits
l. deity

vii. lilac

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By palesiren

Did I paint myself with lilac acrylics that day?

(The voices tell me I must've.)

A pretty (little) girl watched me, somewhere inside my mind, and she was vulnerable then—how could she survive?

She diminished and left me with those horrible mouths wrapping around my skull.

(They tell me my purple hues made her die.)

Little girl, I've forgotten your name, but it is very lonely here without you.

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