Rot
When you grow up like I did, you will scavenge for love like you’ll starve without the scraps.
You’ll carve mold off the edges and ignore the bitter taste between your teeth.
You are no stranger to the smell of spoiled fruit,
it is earthy and sweet like the meaningless words of a woman who loved you no more than enough.
You crave rot.
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