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white to red 2010
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colors White is numb.
White is clean.
You step into white
when everything else is blank,
like that night.
You followed.
Step, step, step. “Come closer.”
Step, step. Whiteness.
You are so innocent it leaves me numb,
turns off sensory.
Turns off. Off.
Are they gone?
“Yes, my darlin’, they drove off with whatever purity was left.”
Drove off to the highway. Good.
Skin around my wrists bump against my pockets searching for the light.
Gone. All gone.
I look at my nails. Red.
