She Was Gelatinhow to become a memory. ![]() pluck out both eyes and replace them with a smell (pond water, grape jell-o, sunscreen, cedar trees.) erase the specific pattern of your skin and cover yourself instead with the cool slime of wet bikinis or the hot bite of summer seatbelts on bare stomachs. fade to a nondescript blur of color while becoming a sound (cicadas mating, wet jelly shoes on rough wood floors, the kiss of skin hitting water.) |
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