Skinnily

Origins:
      how tempting
      to their return
      should be
      by which we may obtain
      the empty.

And I envision myself
skinnily.
How physically putrid
yet mentally free.

Such is the monster,
masquerading disease
as sacrifice
while sedating
a once-vivid pulse
into whispered beats.

But oh, how elating
to partake in the cancer
for which no answer
is ever obtained...

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