breathing in toxic paint

.

and she's desperate,

bloody and bruised and breaking

f a s t,

flailing and choking on memories,

and h e smells

like

t e a m s e v e n

and oh,

even

t

h

e

n

she's clutching, because

she misses it all,

{but not the stinking smell of poison steel}

and so she's

g r a b b i n g h o l d o f

whateveritis

that brings her back

to

p

i

c

t

u

r

e

f

r

a

m

e

s

.

except somehow,

h e sounds like

nothing,

and she's only making

things

worse.