Tag: love
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Applebuyer
Gold band above the filter like an ouroboros born in a philtre If she forgets to buy my apples, I make sure to pout when she walks in to guilt her My sleeve is strapped with false heart, my heart wrapped in ticker tape, a wicked ticker ever was one and in bad shape The…
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Hidden Ritual
In 1971 the Devil released a book and an album After a millennium in the pit he had a head full of tunes Every good guitarist owing and betrothed Every decent singer owes him their throat’s gold Arousal at fame’s suggestion, their souls by deed his at the moment of their disposal All the pills…
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Barnacles
Your enemies must think you useful, they must think themselves close friends You must always be in the state of remembrance, so deep you get the bends Where a cardinal plots his zucchetto my bay fringe flops across my forehead like a common comma, like the sloping tattoo a tide slops on a golden bay…
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Prying Off The Boards
Reveal of day like a long-sought, long-thought breast unveiled I seek only completion, a quest to fetch you We apes cannot help but lech near you, wretches and curs for and before you. Four of me before me Glass backdoors light-invaded populating like a cinema screen First one, no cuckoo’s nest Next two, towers ring-obsessed…
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Periphery Blue
Border blue Quiet surface I peer right through Fathoms deep, fathomless depths Bathing weights for sounding What you feel you swaddle like a foundling What I feel you smother like a changeling The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak. I see storms in you, shooing away storks.…
Alchemisland 