my fingers don't look the same (20/25)

my fingers don't look the same as they used to 
I've been disappearing for so long that I forgot to look but now that I'm looking
they're red as a confession
five to each hand, one to each knuckle of a punch I never saw coming 
I don't know if those fists were disappearing too or if I just can't see anymore
but he called me Oriental
and I called him out
and we were both confused by how suddenly lonely we were

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