she laughed at the blood pricking her skin
she shook the gravel from her hair
and laid back down
she looked at me
and i saw a thousand colors i'd never seen before
swirling in her eyes
they made me dizzy and i felt sick
but in that moment
she was so beautiful and
so broken
and i couldn't turn away
she looked at me
and her brain flipped me upside down and back again
she laughed and told me this
and i watched her watch my body cartwheel
as i sat in the trunk of someone's car
she glinted in the streetlamps
and her finger traced confusing shapes between the stars
she swore and writhed as invisible ropes snaked towards her
and her stomach racked with alien coughs
she looked like an angel
she moved like the wind
and i couldn't bring myself to look away
a single tear met her lashes
it clung to them like she did to me
but she flicked it away and
i felt it sting my cheek
her smile quivered, strange on her lips
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