symbols
cast

lovers moan
in wanton embrace
with death

we are hardly here

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say what you will

"what is it you want?"
still
reverberates

you appear stupid

why?

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in wanton embrace

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writing poetry we
emblazon our stupid wantonness

before the whole world

pretending to love

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symbolically casting ourselves

bronze statuettes

lying in the alley

in a heap