anaphylaxis: against protection;

anaphylaxis:

an acute systemic and severe allergic reaction in humans and other mammals.
the term comes from the greek ανα ana (against) & φύλαξις phylaxis (protection).

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you have beaten on strange
walls with the paper weights
wrapped around your severed
lungs

spun, spun

with words of the psychic
stabbing wounds at the bones

my feet linger with every
tip of the toe and my lips
are chips of stone
trickling at the sight

against protection
but not without