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4.

watch me.

 

follow my fingertips as i trace thin trails

of desire down your freckled chest

 

i don't even know you.

watch me;

 

watch this as i draw thick lines of ink

in the palm of my hand

 

until there are only puddles of

black.

 

i don't even know you.

 

sometimes the leaves outside my window

shudder against the shutters like my fingertips

 

on your chest.

&i; don't even--

 

do i know you?

your eyes whisper lingering

 

on the liquid dripping down my

finger

tips

 

into soft puddles on the carpet--

 

(rain stains the ceiling tiles brown and bulging

and meanwhile the saxophone

 

plays the low end)&this; is only the beg

in

ning.

 

this is only the&i; don't even know you.

 

i don't even know you.

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heather-butler
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Published
Sep 16, 2012
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