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At your death I was a ghost, lying next to your body, I tried not to choke. The suffocation of words I didn't say left me tired and broke. I wanted to lay in the morgue and f a    l      l asleep with you there, next to your blue glass eyes and brown curly hair. The parting gift you left for me-- a dialogue in my head, your ghost screams at me at night, I’m never alone in my bed. A chorus of morphine alarms and IV drips silence me; and they sing my songs for you instead.
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Dec 15, 2015
Dec 15, 2015 at 7:55 PM UTC
A Eulogy--Before You Go (Part IV)
At your death I was a ghost, lying next to your body, I tried not to choke. The suffocation of words I didn't say left me tired and broke. I wanted to lay in the morgue and f a    l      l asleep with you there, next to your blue glass eyes and brown curly hair. The parting gift you left for me-- a dialogue in my head, your ghost screams at me at night, I’m never alone in my bed. A chorus of morphine alarms and IV drips silence me; and they sing my songs for you instead.
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Dec 15, 2015
Dec 15, 2015 at 7:55 PM UTC
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