Throat Apples

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Hunched over, breathing heavily, palms flat and turned outwards with fingers stretched over the kneecaps

a strike, perfectly on the very most fragile beacon of symmetry there where the face folds around the skull, perhaps

and all the steam would just come out in a pitched scream, curdling, before the fried and tired could collapse

Heave in, hitching breaths on the frosted lungs

trouble fetched far to speak in tongues,

mutism, the latter bells such painful rungs

Fetching all focus to contain, to paralyze

catch a sapling sprouting rapidly with piercing cries

desperation, drool, drenched on the wings of these insipid butterflies.