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Love

Smoke curls from my mouth,

soft and silent as shadows

Warm glass is passed

from hand to hand

Voices and laughter and lies

swarm above my head

I can smell smoke in the room

And loneliness

It's dim

Everything blurs together

A haze of lights and hands

I just wanted to be with him, so I came here

to the darkness

with him

My throat burns with all the things I hate

My mouth is dry as dust when he kisses me,

and he tastes like nothing

I say nothing, because this is what you do

when you're in love.

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