Bellyache

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When love recoils from you, what a

Privilege to incarnate as the ache

Bloating your belly, leaden and lumpish,

Nagging and gnawing

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Inside out.

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In defeat, I bypass dignity

My heels digging in the dirt,

Burning bridges through self-immolation,

Bawling, howling to no one

“I’m still here.”