This is another ‘cheat,’ mainly because holidays. It’s the last of the Elemental cheats, so if I have to cheat again in the next couple weeks it’ll have to be from a different work. And now I realize I’ve ‘cheat’ed them in the wrong order: this one is Fire, and their proper order is: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Metal, Void. So. Maybe I’ll get em published at some point, by someone besides me, and you can have a nice little booklet. Hopefully one without coffee stains (see image below).
Day 22: Cleansing
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choke thick forest my
bloat pops the trees my
nobody left, not a sound, not a pot of milk
change my shape and perch, trembling.
i can’t
skim
silent char--they
silent watch bodyburn allhousebodyburn
move
speak
change not
people people people, stuck in one shape that burns
birdbody watches silent dead, silent smoke, silent. nohouse
nobrother, silent.
not girlshape not birdshape not
breastburst bodyburn
watch foxbody below, one left at least nobody
can’t one left all hiding to begin with
puny brain people gotto blow up gotto burn it down if it’s not
mine if it looks like me but not
if it’s magic
people people trapped in one body, burn all others
fly away and away and away and away keep flying
change again change again girlshape birdshape I can
Walk. Weep.
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