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Legacy

Today is the day I determine how I plan to die:

 

        I will lay in a field,

        With flowers in my hair

         And gold coins on my eyes.

        He will stand over my corpse,

        his hands flaying helplessly

        to save my naked soul

        (but he cannot breathe

        Life into a body's that is

        Already cold.)

 

           I want children to pick out my teeth and

        Then plant them in their backyards;

           So when the luscious fruit

           Is picked by their tender hands

           Tears can fall for their dead muse

        (making my insides taste even better)

        They shall be blessed

        With the gift of metaphors

        And they shall be hated.

 

     The ground shall attack them

     As they speak of "anti-love"

     Their feet will grow weary of

     Constant thorns

     And heavy thoughts

                (They'll give up.)

 

My legacy will survive in

        His hands.

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May 30, 2010
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