Favourite freckle, red rib.

from Sleeping in Pashminas by Ruby Nightingale

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A boy once told he liked my ribs, and oh did those tears sting.
Don't rub noses with boys like this, it's a dangerous thing.
I am one cell in the honeycomb that once lied about being happy,
but I didn't lie out of shame or pride, I just hate your sympathy.

I have a friend who sees colour for pitch.
Does that make him a musician or artist?
I think it makes him both and I think for all of us there is hope, because we are two skeletons standing still, yet your body breathes like an accordion.
I know you write songs about my lips and I pretend that I don't find them.

Do you have a favourite freckle on my back?
Do you take my kindness as weakness?
Do you see me for all the things I lack?
Do you think that my guilt is needless?

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from Sleeping in Pashminas, released March 10, 2015

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