like a rubber band until you pull too hard

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I beg you to press your heel against my throat—not enough to ruin me, but just so—just so I can almost see your face— my greatest accomplishment over the last year has been to wrap my heart in a blanket of thorns - loosely at first, then tighter and tighter, until every motion has been dampened and every heartbeat has been silenced 2018-2023 was peak extraversion, meeting and talking and keeping in touch with far too many people, arms fraying as i tried to hold onto everyone. probably it was me making up for a childhood of relative isolation or the natural result of finally learning how…

like a rubber band until you pull too hard

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