January 11, 2025
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Ah, luminous white she blooms a deceptive ghost lover of dark arts ripe in charisma and night moon seducer logic diffuser defense reducer user of dreams abuser of romance tempter-serpent twines and vines a tendril's slither …shh noiseless vanilla viper— she’s a fever teaser damn well make you a heartbreak believer celestial and terrestrial she’s a territorial force spider-vein-lightning crackles across neuronal nebulae behind your glister eyes firework-fantasies flicker desire— a brush fire— engulfs your cerebral star fields razing you to burn red marrow to ash... oh you long— you long to be the phoenix on her pyre writhing to rise again and again you yearn to pluck her play her possess her place her in a solitary bud vase share your lust of ardor with hungry admiration resist the thirst of your hands to touch resist the airy lariat of her buttercream-spice resist the thirst of your taste buds to baste in her taste as honey-whines drip from her summer-wine lips poised in parted pout to poison you physical and ethereal she wears an imperial crown she steals your stars and flaunts them in her eyes dare her when she unfurls— a swan against black satin she’ll wrestle your heart from your chest burst it with pin-prick-pupils of scorn save it in her cat’s paw purse for her verse— before she mousetraps your bleats and mercy pleas within the mantrap of her parasol pleats leaving you alone to skin your soul and mend the hole where your old self ends while your new self melts into moans you now own
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