My Mother Does Not Like Pen Marks, by Megan McMurrin My mother does not like pen marks ink seeping, staining skin pen marks on any body parts surely a great sin ink seeping, staining skin letting the ink contaminate surely a great sin I never never never thought that ink would mark her fate letting the ink contaminate They mark her; forehead, neck and ears I never never never thought that ink would mark her fate lines of purple and white gown all she wears. They mark her; forehead, neck and ears these marks, they do delineate lines of purple and white gown all she wears. so they radiate. These marks they do delineate possible pathways the cancer creeps so they radiate as the ink slowly seeps possible pathways the cancer creeps the machine envelops with intent to burn as the ink slowly seeps in the skin as the burn begins the machine envelops with intent to burn the light penetrates in the skin as the burn begins to radiate the light penetrates the cancer? Stay still! They start to radiate the ink the cancer chart the cancer? Stay still! They start along the temporal, occipital bones the ink the cancer chart maps the spread of cancers’ home along the temporal, occipital bones the pain persistently embeds maps the spread of cancers’ home on vast plain of hairless head the pain persistently embeds along purplish longitude lines which run on vast plain of hairless head It is done. along purplish longitude lines which run as she scrubs them leaving streaks It is done. but beneath her clothes the tattoos peek as she scrubs them leaving streaks she wishes the scrubs to eradicate but beneath her clothes the tattoos peek an emblem of the radiate she wishes the scrubs to eradicate black stains sprawling across white an emblem of the radiate if you hold the x-rays to the light black stains sprawling across white unwashable stains that cancer spills if you hold the x-rays to the light black marks bone that cancer kills unwashable stains that cancer spills black marks black marks bone that cancer kills pain starts black marks pen marks on any body parts pain starts my mother does not like pen marks
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