BY DAVIDMURRAYLAW@GMAIL.COM

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Skinnying

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Fighter, 1913 - Egon Schiele - WikiArt.org

https://www.wikiart.org/en/egon-schiele/fighter-1913

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I am reverting to the boyish figure of my youth
trying to become more handsome than I have ever been before

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I am concerned that you might not want me
with hollowed cheeks and flattened abdomen

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What would you press your lips into?
What would your fingers grasp in the last moments of love?

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I am trying to hold my own against your beauty
I know this to be a worthy cause but one I cannot win
yet, it injects me with an energy that knows no bounds

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This is a also gentle warning
I expect that as my transformation goes forward
women will throw themselves at my feet

in ascending numbers

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I could become preoccupied with a lass younger than you.
I might even surrender my efforts to save the world
– these are not working very well anyway

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Please save me before I turn too thin

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2017

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