Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole

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Carly Cake Club, Age 15

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3am 
whoooop whoop whoop
Flickering Lights
on
ceiling,
red, blue, double flash

I'm awake
shallow breathing
Walls too close for comfort
Chest pains
drenched in sweat
slime creeps down
Noise from upstairs,
Creaking bed frame
eek eek
tentative,
then
excessive,
EEKEEKEEK
loud moans,
they are fucking
just scream,
bitch.
i bring myself back inside
only for mind to
Nurse,
Jarring,
thoughts.
Encased in plexiglass insanity
Body limp, steamed broccoli
knocked out feeling's eye
Dazed.

Then,
Anger.

Harpooning,
cracked self.
thop thop
Thopthopthop
Mind Fuck.
Keep Fucking.

Booming fists pounding
Door
opens

Solid shoes inside
Panic
Carly?

Silence

CARLY NOW
Ah, damn it.
I'm coming mother