wasp: fire-bellied fly

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i feel Soul trapped in all of my creases

in wads of yellow lint; in hiding,

a honey-wasp girl passing off her stinger

as a sixth finger, that

single vessel of raw audacious pride

painted with a purpled bruise

leaking Life around the edges

like a red-lipped wound.

with it, i pilfer from the helium-

filled children their incessant joy

in some ashamed form of

a counterfeit Robin Hood

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