i am an apricot,
dried and vacuum-packed amongst chunks of cashew nuts and *************
i am a cigarette,
wrinkled and cracked with ashes so rank and how the wind whispers my bones away.
i am a stick of magnesium
extingushed halfway -
and i will never burn again
for you have swallowed my spark.
Oct 13, 2016
Oct 13, 2016 at 3:06 PM UTC
i am an apricot,
dried and vacuum-packed amongst chunks of cashew nuts and *************
i am a cigarette,
wrinkled and cracked with ashes so rank and how the wind whispers my bones away.
i am a stick of magnesium
extingushed halfway -
and i will never burn again
for you have swallowed my spark.
13.10.16; whilst sipping on kopi luwak and learning about metaphors
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