ix.
when you were eighteen
and i was fourteen
you handed me a blindfold
teethed with razors
because you say
truth is schizophrenic:
and angels are anemic
and my eyes are sweeter
than pomegranate
but your poison did not stop at
fairytale apples or lazarus
or hellish flowerets,
it re-mastered
left its tar around
your marrows.
iii.
when you were twenty
and i was sixteen
you gave me a Glasgow smile
on my tongue:
like the pale harlequin
so i could bleed solace
and sympathetical commiseration
through every word
when ever you needed me
wheil you emitted a rosary
that encircled
clavicles, threading it to a hole you manifested
inside my sternum
because you belived
a heart was not neccessary
if a doll could
love with fingers
*
now you are ten years old
and i am seven years older
you ask me to write a poem
about you and artistry
but i am waiting
for the aestheticist
beside the violet car
with one ear and
debauchery
licking my fingers
and biting off your nails.
Oct 22, 2010
Oct 22, 2010 at 6:29 AM UTC
ix.
when you were eighteen
and i was fourteen
you handed me a blindfold
teethed with razors
because you say
truth is schizophrenic:
and angels are anemic
and my eyes are sweeter
than pomegranate
but your poison did not stop at
fairytale apples or lazarus
or hellish flowerets,
it re-mastered
left its tar around
your marrows.
iii.
when you were twenty
and i was sixteen
you gave me a Glasgow smile
on my tongue:
like the pale harlequin
so i could bleed solace
and sympathetical commiseration
through every word
when ever you needed me
wheil you emitted a rosary
that encircled
clavicles, threading it to a hole you manifested
inside my sternum
because you belived
a heart was not neccessary
if a doll could
love with fingers
*
now you are ten years old
and i am seven years older
you ask me to write a poem
about you and artistry
but i am waiting
for the aestheticist
beside the violet car
with one ear and
debauchery
licking my fingers
and biting off your nails.
its for an old friend..
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