human
skin
is
as
deep
as
the
tip
of
a
ball
point
pen

you
have
to
really
sink
the
pen
to
get
to
the
real
poems

i
don’t
mean
the
meat
level
either

i
mean
bone
deep

the
marrow
of
the
bone

where
the
blood
is
manufactured

- rob plath

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