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VI

Let me start again, here,
where a woman ends.
The wrists were involved.
Also the leg-tops, the delicate skin
of the inner arms,
anywhere she could drag a sharpness

that factors in and out
what she could not change in her life
which was pain.

The steel ratio of pain
to power
being control.

VII

Now ask yourself, as I did,
why hurt yourself more?