Brittle Bones

Brittle bones, trying to escape,
crushing veins against flesh;
muddy red, dirty yellow
deep blue and petrol.
The skin a canvas
painted watercolored by bone-brush strokes.

Jutting joints and restless nerves
unhinged and tangled.
Mental accident, inner emergency;
like flashing lights and siren sounds
and chaos and confusion.

Brain-matter splattered against the skull,
aching, bruising, swelling
- endless push and pull.

Dull, dense ruby blooming inside the chest,
creaking, leaking, heaving
- hammering towards cardiac arrest.

Vertebras eating into tissue dense
gnawing, chewing, biting
- clawing at the last line of defense.

Pressure.
Little brittle bones about to break.

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