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Numb

That trip to the dentist left me uncomfortably numb

There was blood in my mouth on my gum

A tooth missing

The wind blowing against me

Senseless to trauma

Drowsy limbs stumbled

Across roads

Over fallen branches and streets

With unfamiliar names

Like 'uncomfortably numb'

Married 23 years and two months

The gate flapping open

Like loose skin

And the unchosen choices

Taken

Those familiar blocks that mark

In and out

The name that was nothing to shout about

Easily lost in an archive

Uncomfortably numb

Dreaming of rivers and sunrise

And an afternoon off

Feeling nothing but gas and air

And speechless

Child without a scream

Waiting silent in the corner

As a maternal torturer feeds you

Nut cake and cream

Blood on the sheets

Blood on the spoon

The pain of pleasure

Did it come too soon?

marigold farquart browningsworth

aka yvette smith

poem by Yvette Smith
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