i've
learned to abbreviate
the way my heart feels each time you cut a piece off
and put it in your pocket, for safe keeping you say
but i never see it again
and the hole left bleeds until it dries
forms a scar
and then you return
for another peace of me
f.o. (fuck off)
I've never seen the word "abbreviate" used in this way. It's perfect. Abbreviations define the whole using parts...and here, the speaker is being defined by the parts that are being taken away. In the end, she rejects being subjected to that any longer.
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