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Immerse me

In jubilant flames

With iridescent tongue

Lick away the skin

Don't dare be kind

Paralyze me in paraffin

And spark the match

Teach me to tear chitin back

To flirt with fear

To tunnel through

From a new morning womb

To splay out anew

Coarse and naked as the truth

Each digit like a compass pole

Glowing starlike in the white-hot heat

I will coax you out

Like vermin hiding

In every crawlspace in your heart

And you'll flow out, blinding

An opalescent river

Molten being of vigor

Hurtling toward oblivion

I passed straight through

The eye and screamed

May we all be

When I reach for you

When I stretch out my arms

And beg your guide

You should know

I speak not to you

There is no you

You never were

I speak to me—I command me

I see you clear as the dawn

There's no more hiding now

I feel the ache that gnaws at your heel

Did you think this was any less than fate?

Feel your spring

Boiling up from the black

Like the eyes of a bride beneath her veil

Ecstatic and resolute

Abduct the absolute

Dismember the deceiver

And rise

Bury your mask and burn