Rot

Mar 21, 2026

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Scrubbed my skin with my untrimmed nails,

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Harder and harder every time.

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The touch and the lingering love to be removed,

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But I still feel it, I do, it’s not leaving. What to do?

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It’s corrosive; it corrodes, and in the end, skin erodes

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You spoil me, and then you let go,

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She’s dead for you, and soon I’ll be too.

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You’re a fool, but I am the bigger one for saying I do.

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It’s all cruel, I can’t ride the vehicle with no fuel,

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There is a rot all over my skin, but it has penetrated deeper now

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I tried to stop that rot, but now it’s all over now

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We are all over now. I am sober now.

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Paper Moth

Jan 10