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Nessa Kay Mar 2017
The flavor burned
it was too strong
and too much
I wanted to taste it
I wanted to burn
Nessa Kay Mar 2017
with a voice made of velvet
fresh off the steam
he held up the tent
we'd come to call a stage
Nessa Kay Mar 2017
And just like that, it was so simple
all daytime, flowers, and sunshine
or things
about which birds sing
He was patience
and madness
and simply
a beautiful night sky
just waiting for me to paint him.
Nessa Kay Mar 2017
I was furious
because I had been so completely
out of control-
lungs shaking
throat clenching in my path
and spiraling out faster than
that moment before depth,
all because the heart on my sleeve
was bleeding through
and I couldn't stand the stains.

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