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Fever

February 8, 2013
By plombardo5 SILVER, Wantage, NJ, New Jersey
plombardo5 SILVER, Wantage, NJ, New Jersey
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Inside my stomach,
A tribe of small men
Push small boulders
Against the red side
Of my skin.

It isn't their fault,
Never was.

We all have to
Squeeze our bullets out
Somehow.

The bulls-eye knows.
So does the trigger.

It pulls at them both,
Around midnight,

When the light
Has nowhere to go,
Except
Inside
The moon.


The author's comments:
This was a poem written during a stomach ache. I somehow got the visual of small people pushing against my stomach. This poem is about the nature of pain, and the idea that pain often drives people to do wrong.

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