The finger asked me:<\/p>\n
‘Of all the fingers you own,<\/p>\n
why did you choose me to hurt?’<\/p>\n
I avoided an answer<\/p>\n
Because I was void of one<\/p>\n
Head bent in guilt, I pleaded,<\/p>\n
It was an accident, no,<\/p>\n
not my carelessness<\/p>\n
for I saw the machete swing,<\/p>\n
like it had swung at other times<\/p>\n
as I broke the husk of a coconut.<\/p>\n
But how could I tell,<\/p>\n
yes, how could I tell<\/p>\n
that the machete would miss the coconut<\/p>\n
choose the finger that held it?<\/p>\n
Now, athrob with pain and dripping blood<\/p>\n
my thumb does not feel like my own.<\/p>\n
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