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Cut You

I'd like to cut my hair and feel

naked as I was

the day I left my shirt sheltering your back

I do my best to cut my curls to the

quick and cut your fingers

running down my spine

I'll cut the sweet brown sound

of me touching you with Mozart and mad

mad love in my eyes

I'm going to take my knife and free

my face from these ragged

wind-whipped blades I treasured

I can live raw

as I was the night I crushed stars under my

toes dancing on a concrete pilon

I was spinning not falling

into your soft embrace but even then

there was a beauty of a blade in my back pocket

I'd like to cradle you in the weary

cotton shirt I left behind and as I walk away

naked I'll cut you from my mind

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liz-anne
American
Published
Aug 16, 2014
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