(i'm not sure if this is complete or not)

i've started posting on fictionpress again under solarfae, altho when i went back and reread what i'd posted, i was a bit embarrassed that i hadn't edited one last time before posting. heh. oh well.


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i cultivate my exhaustion
the way i would worry a cavity--
with the delicate pink tip of my tongue
prodding carefully the source of pain
and finding, unexpectedly, the delights
of masochism, savored and brazen.