Poetry: Unreal

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Not a real person

Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash

I'm not a real person
Just tired skin that smarts too much 
Just neurons reacting lazily 
To hell sites and thoughts of doom 
And unwantedness 

I'm not a real person
Just a hermit in a borrowed shell 
Hiding out until the clownfish pass 
To catch winks/ Of oblivion 

I'm not a real person 
Wouldn't I feel my face?
There would be more to me
Than pockets of pain 
Arranged aesthetically 

I'm not a real person
You'd walk right through me 
And if you knew you'd laugh 
Sheerly at the novelty

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