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Green Plastic Crocodile
The darkness killed me
last night.
I sat watching
walls of glass,
thinking to myself
about the
green plastic crocodile
my mother bought me
as a kid.
I cut it's tail with
scissors that I stole
from school,
thinking that it would grow back.
The walls shook a little
and then
shatterred,
cutting me in several different places.
I let myself bleed,
thinking that it would stop.
Soon I was sitting on what felt like a wet
sponge.
The couch turned red.
I let myself die.
Thinking that
it would
not matter.
from Babylon's Hot City On Parade May 1997
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