laboratory mouse
in the dream I had no hair
not on my head or arms
not on my legs or chin
or anywhere else
for that matter
it was as if I was a hairless albino
but I was anything but white
my eyes blue like a flame
my lips a liquid hot pink
could it have been that I was melting
left hanging above a candle
my body slowly becoming the wax
creeping down all sides
of the cylinder
august two thousand twenty-three
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