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If love is an art-form,    I beg you,       do not choose me. Do not paint,    with fingertips tracing my skin, The colour of your love,    with the slashes of your paintbrush upon my flesh, In a torrent of red velvet,    surging from your screaming veins. If I lie there in wait, draped over cotton bedsheets,    I beg you       do not make me your canvas.       Do not make me your art and leave me                        hanged                                      for all the world to see    while you marvel at the beauty you created. -j.s.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 4:25 PM UTC
The Artist Holds the Noose
If love is an art-form,    I beg you,       do not choose me. Do not paint,    with fingertips tracing my skin, The colour of your love,    with the slashes of your paintbrush upon my flesh, In a torrent of red velvet,    surging from your screaming veins. If I lie there in wait, draped over cotton bedsheets,    I beg you       do not make me your canvas.       Do not make me your art and leave me                        hanged                                      for all the world to see    while you marvel at the beauty you created. -j.s.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 4:25 PM UTC
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