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Your Face Reflected In The Fireplace

Listen to you with your lip-synch promises

You kiss me and take a bite with acid tongues

Spiked with sugary smiles

Your words are liquid lead

Your letters bleed loudly through their envelopes

Bubbling like broken dreams

How do you know what you seem to know?

It is a black skinned paperclip globe

A slow ticking suffering sickly

Strobing life

 

Watch you with your face of clay and prosthetic eyes

You stroke me and scratch with a headless finger

Sliding in my heart to lay your egg sac

Whenever you speak

Your words are biting back laughter

How can I take you seriously?

You hair in black chains

With synthetic singing locks

Double tracked and prerecorded

Sensual loops

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chaotic-melodic
American
Published
Aug 30, 2010
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© Cory McQueen

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