Porcelain

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I prepared the gold wax to help you fix the cracks,
porcelain shattered from yesterday's ruckus.

Apparently, you didn't want me there.
and so I poured the hot wax on myself,
in hopes of sealing my own broken porcelain--
in hopes of fixing my broken self.

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