{"sf1_id":864187,"sf2_id":"Zeq9gM4e","title":"Mousetrap Binary","author":"Werefox Inari Sachi","words":213,"posted_at":"2015-05-21T12:26:00.000Z","tags":["Dream","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/864187-mousetrap-binary","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Zeq9gM4e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/45/ca/45ca5469-8c38-4873-a9d9-9686c0814bb5","description":"Take a guess at which side of the bed I woke up on, while sleeping next to my inner would-be lady.\nTHE SAME WRONG SIDE.\nGuh. Morning breath. And we both look older in the mirror.","content":"I will rise\n\nFrom this squalid body,\n\nWill I rise\n\nPlace a rapier through your ribs\n\nCrush the old definition,\n\nEmbracing all the while\n\nGet a rise\n\nI rise from bed,\n\nSense of safety defunct\n\nEmpty, crushing pressures--\n\nExpectations rise,\n\nHe awakes the room over\n\nI rise up from this squalid body\n\nI am playing concubine,\n\nHousewife, vixen,\n\nWould-be maven\n\nI look down,\n\nSee the danglers swing.\n\nFuck.\n\nCrudely, someone laughs\n\nI dream of placing their face, in the hamburger press\n\nOf a nearby George Foreman\n\n\"Shit, you kidding? Support your stroll\n\nto squeeze into a different pair of shoes--\"\n\nI smash down harder.\n\nI'm the vixen.\n\nYou can't compare a shade of Sepia to orange or brown.\n\n\"So invent your own little world, and live in--\"\n\nI squeeze grease from their bloody nostrils.\n\nI curl my fists in fury.\n\nI long to live in a world, where I can show my beauty.\n\nAlright. I get a rise from slipping in\n\nSlip into a skin I've never worn\n\nThinking 'twould be better if my soul were shorn\n\nFrom empty form, while playing to an empty norm.\n\nAnd wrathful images are formed\n\nWhile softly scoffing\n\nAt my hubris, I adorn myself\n\nIn unfitting garment.\n\nFeeling unremarkable\n\nUnseen\n\nUnheard\n\nNever to rock the boat.\n\nUnless...\n\n  \n  \n\n"}