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Loss

In a small green tent I reached for midnight Above our stoned embrace my lies Emptied in an indifferent trickle of desire We giggled, fingering each other’s faces The strange familiar- absurdity In the doef-doef music and the scale of my fish-nets Two teenage screw-ups, a clichéd poem already forming On lips bruised with vampire kisses With which I stroked your smile, coaxing truths on which to feed

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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