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I.L.U (Consider the Mayfly)

I L U like my dirty clothes Love being forgotten On my bedroom floor I L U like chores love the music that helps them forget they're chores I L U like dirty dishes Love hot showers and the other side of the sink I L U like I love spilling Salt, and warding off the evil, By tossing some behind my back I L U like I love Breaking rules about my own supposed non-Superstition I L U like black cats love Bad luck, cause to them, It's just Friday, you know? I L U like the hot dog bun Loves staring at the beef patty, Wishing "if only, if only" I L U like bread loves Being forgotten till we're really hungry And then we're all ungrateful, like "Hey bread, you remember us?" And bread is high above us, like "Always." Not even a hint of scorn I L U like the first time I saw Jurassic Park, The dinosaurs Were real enough sans chicken feathers, and Who needs modern science anyways when love has no fossil records? I L U like the weather loves Surprise parties. I L U like painful surprise party memories love being forgotten on my bedroom floor I love you like Mayflies love living, oh so briefly, once a day, every single day, Chapter one to chapter none I love you like mayflies love themselves, brevity and all, stirred by nothing but the glow of Dawn's light, Dead by dusk, the Mayfly never knows its final form. It dies in complete incompletion, but that's okay. It drank the salt ocean, it breathed the living air, And that's how I want to L U
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Written by
hector-oliveras-garcia
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
For You?
Written by
hector-oliveras-garcia
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Published
Feb 25, 2017
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Notes

Mayflies are cool little buggers.

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#bugs#insect#insects#entomology#romance#ology#dusk#iloveyou#love#hearts
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