I must hope, disembogued, that her mouth’s smallish beads indifferent
in the corners can secrete themselves, hissing in a breath between lips made smaller
by the tightening of hunger: is it but a daub to tear at at first nothing, and then nothing prised
out, the kids stuffing themselves in, forbidden to lick their fingers even scrapping
for a bite of the carcass and those who, submitting to a new face and once in place
won’t show still the past? my kin thrusts out her bones—you’re a simulee to have yourself
in every moment of yourself, she says, even if such creatures share a mouth
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