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Love Looks Better Through Black Eyes

I want you to be like cracks in the wall

Splitting, terrifying, acknowledgments of age.

But full of character.

The kind of wrecked up building

Hipsters want to take photos of.

 

I want you to be a condemned factory

In some rundown New Jersey Industrial district.

 

I need you like the worn lines on some film reel.

Getting in the way of the best parts.

 

You could be a dress completely destroyed by cigarette burns

Or the stains on an important document.

 

You could be my anti-Christ to perfection.

And I’d crucify you with the best intention.

 

You’re like a car with old bullet holes,

Or that rug everybody is afraid to touch.

 

In the end you’re like some decrepit ruin of a vast civilization.

Old and broken.

But eternally majestic in my perception.

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Apr 5, 2011
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