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CHERRY LIP BALM

Every ounce of pressure against my veins, like the flood of heavy summer rains. Trying to escape the coating of my flesh, internal tensions I could not oppress. I hear crickets, smell the morning dew. All I can ever concentrate on is you. Made to feel nervous but oh so calm, sometimes even sweet like cherry lip balm. A moment of combustion then release, your tongue wanders onto my body, into a crease. I'll never care if I get rich, so ever long as you ease my twitch. Stale smoke and the scent of butane, breath seeps into me like a bloodstain. You, a child at heart and I, a freak into abstract art, like Ad Reinhardt. What a fine creation, our own constellation, an innovation, better than intoxication.
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Written by
thenapkinpoet
20 / Philadelphia, PA
Published
Dec 6, 2016
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18·129
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#love#poem#summer#cherry#veins#lip#rains#balm#combust
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