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the Monday before

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today, a moth crawls over the rim of the ceiling lamp and flies into the room
a beetle circles the bathtub drain cover
I am a supine Jesus on the guest room floor

tomorrow, we peel up flaps
incise
excise
drain

tomorrow, I don't eat breakfast
I don't eat lunch
I don't eat dinner

tomorrow,
I don't remember anything

after three weeks,
I rise again
tomorrow I'm getting a bilateral mastectomy, colloquially known among trans folks as 'top surgery'

recovery's supposed to take three weeks and I don't know how out of it I'll be, so this is your notice to not be concerned if I'm even less active than usual

in case something goes horribly wrong, it's been real
y'all are great
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IceColdNormal's avatar
Wow, great poem. And I'll be sending good vibes :)