I'm a different kind of matter
and the universe will shatter
if you touch me
all my chemical offenses
bleed through past and present tenses
they come rushing
those scarlet letter platelets
bubble up to where my face is
catch me blushing
and you could look right through me
like I'm chardonnay and woozy
it could crush me
but maybe what I needed wasn’t in the vaccine
maybe I was showing symptoms I couldn’t see
maybe I was always s’posed to turn out to be
your anti, anti, anti, antI antibody
now I'm inside out and backwards
and you’ll catalyze disaster
if you touch me
it all goes viral in an instant
and you learn to keep your distance
you can trust me
something we can both agree on
skip the fever for the freon
and we’ll feel nothing
let the water boil in my skull
hold my tongue against a 9-volt
I feel nothing
maybe what I needed wasn’t in the vaccine
maybe I was showing symptoms I couldn’t see
maybe I was always s’posed to turn out to be
your anti, anti, anti, antI antibody
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