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Burrs, the Original Velcro — Image by kenne

You cling.
Let’s start there.
Not affection—
need.
You grab my sock
as if it owes you something,

as if we were once intimate
and I forgot to call.
I stand still,
arguing silently with a plant
that refuses to let go
without taking a piece of me.

— kenne

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