The hurt child will bite... «The Door»
lost_witch6 мая 2016The hurt child will bite you. The hurt child will turn into a fearsome creature and bite you where you stand.
The hurt child will grow a skin over the wound you have given it – or not given, because the wound is not a gift, a gift is accepted freely, and the child had no choice.
It will grow a skin over the wound, the hoarded wound, the heirloom wound you have pried out of yourself like a bullet and implanted in its flesh – a skin a hide a pelt a scalded rind, and sharp fish teeth like a warped baby’s – and it will bite you
and you will cry foul as is your habit and there will be a fight because you’ll take the fight out of the box labelled Fights you keep so carefully stored against emergencies, and this is one,
and the hurt child will lose the fight and it will go lurching off into the suburbs, and it will cause panic in drugstores and havoc among the barbecues and they will say Help help a monster and it will get into the news
and it will be hunted with dogs, and it will leave a trail of hair, fur, scales, and baby teeth, and tears from where it has been ripped by broken glass and such
and it will hide in culverts in toolsheds, under shrubs, licking its wound, its rage, the rage you gave it and it will drag itself to the well
the lake the stream the reservoir because it is thirsty because it is monstrous with its raging thirst which looks like spines all over it
and the dogs and the hunters will find it and it will stand at bay and howl about injustices and it will be torn open and they will eat its heart
and everyone will cheer, Thank god that’s over!
And its blood will seep into the water and you will drink it every day.
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