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I want to be the bed covers You wake to That your restless limbs Have smothered That your emanating body The fabric You have tossed-and-turned in 8 hours hence Imprinted with your scent And the mouthwash You gargle To swoosh-and-splash Along your tongue To be in you Like a liquid ache Sloshing Waking I want to be the fork You pick your eggs with My metallic spine In your slight fingers Your demure  hands Scarred sustenance Yolk sun I want to be the comb Tangled in your frizzy hair Your wavy hair of smoke And shadowed lakes As soft as lint Cascading I want to be the cig You light on the corner To warm the brick morning I want to hang on your quivering lips Like an autumn leaf from a branch I want you to inhale me And let your body loose Feel me utterly Then exhale... Let me evaporate Into the nothingness I was before You
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 10:39 PM UTC
Post-Aubade
I want to be the bed covers You wake to That your restless limbs Have smothered That your emanating body The fabric You have tossed-and-turned in 8 hours hence Imprinted with your scent And the mouthwash You gargle To swoosh-and-splash Along your tongue To be in you Like a liquid ache Sloshing Waking I want to be the fork You pick your eggs with My metallic spine In your slight fingers Your demure  hands Scarred sustenance Yolk sun I want to be the comb Tangled in your frizzy hair Your wavy hair of smoke And shadowed lakes As soft as lint Cascading I want to be the cig You light on the corner To warm the brick morning I want to hang on your quivering lips Like an autumn leaf from a branch I want you to inhale me And let your body loose Feel me utterly Then exhale... Let me evaporate Into the nothingness I was before You
Footnotes: An aubade is a morning love song (as opposed to a serenade, which is in the evening), or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn.[1] It has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak".[2] - WIKI It's generally a lament about the morning since dawn means the end of the night, the broken spell for the lovers. Romeo and Juliet perhaps exhibits the most famous "aubade". However, I decided to write about the morning after.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 10:39 PM UTC
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