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Emi Jay
Poems
Sep 2018
tua culpa universa
the post-mortem will say:
sudden cardiac arrest
(medicine cannot quantify
death by a broken heart).
i thought it was sweet,
the arrhythmia you gave me
(at least the butterflies
dissolved harmlessly in acid).
you knew me, invasively,
a mortician's secret autopsy
(you counting my scars, ribs,
was it more habit than desire?)
curiosity is what killed me;
mine and yours, ill-matched
(i would have preferred cruelty
to your cool detachment).
the post-mortem has found:
i died of natural causes
(which makes you, my heart-
breaker, a force of nature)
(extended version of "tua culpa")
#romantic
#gothic
#science
#love
#medical
#romance
#goth
#dark
#heartbreak
#unrequited
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Emi Jay
20/F/Europe
(20/F/Europe)
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