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The Sickness

from Bitter Fruit by Jodie Oakes

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lyrics

The Sickness

Restlessly your body shifts
Behind a great weight
I watch you curiously
As a flavour rises
That I bite back down
Your skin leaks pale
Translucent and muddy
Your swelling encapsulates the room
Leaving me small
Shrunken in the corner
I pop the pills furiously
Whilst you sweat and soak
Beneath the sheets.
I count the drops of blood
With care
With love
And a sigh that is
Still my own.

Afterwards I feel ashamed
That I can’t shake the sickness
Growing inside
Of me, of you.
I tune out and think of
Burst balloons,
Slabs of flesh
And shards of bone.
I avoid the touch of your hand
But watch as layer by layer
Your onion heart becomes lost
In the folds.
That thing that whimpers
On the floor
Leaves me
Dull eyed in surprise
The hunger of the mouth
Always reaching
Never ending
The cries that shake the night
From its restless dream
Those prickles of hope
Fade and stain
Fade and stain
And I realize we have
Nothing left
To give
Except our bodies.

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from Bitter Fruit, released July 3, 2016

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