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Another Stupid Fucking 'Cutter' Poem Written by Another Ignored Teenager, But That Was Your Guess, Anyway, Right?
You know, I sat on my small bathroom sink
Prying apart another of my cousin's Gillette
Razors, because they work the best.
Sure, my hands were a little roughed up,
But they always are since I'm an
"Artist."
Yes, I sat there for about ten minutes
With my lips smashed together,
And my furrowing brow, in
Concentration, I finally unlatch the
Blade's familiar casing.
Five tiny little daggers stumble from
Their mother into my palm
as if to say
Pick me, pick me!
They are the face of society
Today, I know
But I really don't care.
So I claim an anonymous
Hopeful for the deed of
The only prescence I'd ever
allowed into my pants,
Ironically.
And I go lie in the tub with my head
Against the white wall
And my feet inches from the
Other end since I'm
Almost 5"1.
I sit there holding the little razor between
My two index fingers and look
Up at the shower head
with my elbows perched
On either wall of my Hail Mary.
Do it, it says.
Like it was watching me with
a disgusting need
Or its own kind of
Gratification.
Do it, now insistent.
Okay.
I push down my plaid pajama shorts
Revealing my pale thighs.
For a moment I just use
the dull side of
The blade and draw
invisible worlds
Across my flesh and wonder
what I'll look like in twenty,
Thirty,
Forty,
Years what with obsession with
Elizabeth Bathory.
Here, I flip the weapon's real talents
Where it should be.
I press it at an angle and
Suddenly know the euphoric
Tug of my skin
Opening
and my blood
Spilling in little rivets.
But isn't that the story of
Every other teenager?
I want so anxiously to be different but
I know I'm not. I know
I'll be here for the rest
Of my life.
Waiting on some poor soul
To fall into my parasidic claws
So that I can do just what I'm doing now
And destroy them from
The inside.
I place the blade onto the soap shelf
on the face of the shower and
Just stare at the mirror of
Selfishness portrayed as cuts
across my skin.
I let it define me because
I can't define myself.
I want someone to care.
Prying apart another of my cousin's Gillette
Razors, because they work the best.
Sure, my hands were a little roughed up,
But they always are since I'm an
"Artist."
Yes, I sat there for about ten minutes
With my lips smashed together,
And my furrowing brow, in
Concentration, I finally unlatch the
Blade's familiar casing.
Five tiny little daggers stumble from
Their mother into my palm
as if to say
Pick me, pick me!
They are the face of society
Today, I know
But I really don't care.
So I claim an anonymous
Hopeful for the deed of
The only prescence I'd ever
allowed into my pants,
Ironically.
And I go lie in the tub with my head
Against the white wall
And my feet inches from the
Other end since I'm
Almost 5"1.
I sit there holding the little razor between
My two index fingers and look
Up at the shower head
with my elbows perched
On either wall of my Hail Mary.
Do it, it says.
Like it was watching me with
a disgusting need
Or its own kind of
Gratification.
Do it, now insistent.
Okay.
I push down my plaid pajama shorts
Revealing my pale thighs.
For a moment I just use
the dull side of
The blade and draw
invisible worlds
Across my flesh and wonder
what I'll look like in twenty,
Thirty,
Forty,
Years what with obsession with
Elizabeth Bathory.
Here, I flip the weapon's real talents
Where it should be.
I press it at an angle and
Suddenly know the euphoric
Tug of my skin
Opening
and my blood
Spilling in little rivets.
But isn't that the story of
Every other teenager?
I want so anxiously to be different but
I know I'm not. I know
I'll be here for the rest
Of my life.
Waiting on some poor soul
To fall into my parasidic claws
So that I can do just what I'm doing now
And destroy them from
The inside.
I place the blade onto the soap shelf
on the face of the shower and
Just stare at the mirror of
Selfishness portrayed as cuts
across my skin.
I let it define me because
I can't define myself.
I want someone to care.
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