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Salt body


My body is a bag of salt.

laying there dryly.

I can feel my arms and thighs throbbing from my cuts.

The nurse packs more salt onto my legs. 

i cry out, but there is a heaving weight keeping me from breathing.

Tears trickle down my salty face. 

 

 

 

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