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This morning, I pulled a flaming string Of ***** ruby tinted hair From the inside of a sock on my floor, And in the shower, I found a single thread Of burning, stranded follicle Wrapped around the drain's grate, Which struck me as odd, Because you've never step foot In my shower (as much as I might have wished), You've never even set foot in That bathroom at all, It was always too ***** to touch your porcelin skin, To by seen by your eyes or feel your judgement, But even so, I still find your hair everywhere. This morning, I put on a shirt, One that you said held me half as nice As you ever could, And I thought of your words And I thought of your gentle touch as I plucked A lingering fiber of a lost flame flicker From the breast of my attire, And another wriggling yarn undone Soaked in the end of a sunset From the interior of my ripped jeans pocket That still embedded the whisper of your perfume, Your hair was absolutely everywhere. This morning, I stumbled into my car And sulked in the sun As a hair of yours relaxed Among the dust of dashboard features, And the sight of it Prompted my mind to wake, My hand to shift into gear, And my tired legs to throttle the gas. This morning, The cars and trees and blank-slated faces Hazed together in a fuse of Gray and brown and all the other ugly colors, The colors of dead things, Which must have been why I drove to the cemetery. The gates, rusted and lonesome, Creaked a "hello", And the ground was frosty To my arrival. This morning, I found a hair of yours Draped over the head of a stone, And that struck me as utterly odd Since you've never been here before now, And this morning at work, My pants were covered in dirt From kneeling before you as the sun came up, But I didn't care, I had to come see you And ask you to keep Your ******* hair to yourself.
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Sep 2, 2018
Sep 2, 2018 at 6:04 PM UTC
This Morning
This morning, I pulled a flaming string Of ***** ruby tinted hair From the inside of a sock on my floor, And in the shower, I found a single thread Of burning, stranded follicle Wrapped around the drain's grate, Which struck me as odd, Because you've never step foot In my shower (as much as I might have wished), You've never even set foot in That bathroom at all, It was always too ***** to touch your porcelin skin, To by seen by your eyes or feel your judgement, But even so, I still find your hair everywhere. This morning, I put on a shirt, One that you said held me half as nice As you ever could, And I thought of your words And I thought of your gentle touch as I plucked A lingering fiber of a lost flame flicker From the breast of my attire, And another wriggling yarn undone Soaked in the end of a sunset From the interior of my ripped jeans pocket That still embedded the whisper of your perfume, Your hair was absolutely everywhere. This morning, I stumbled into my car And sulked in the sun As a hair of yours relaxed Among the dust of dashboard features, And the sight of it Prompted my mind to wake, My hand to shift into gear, And my tired legs to throttle the gas. This morning, The cars and trees and blank-slated faces Hazed together in a fuse of Gray and brown and all the other ugly colors, The colors of dead things, Which must have been why I drove to the cemetery. The gates, rusted and lonesome, Creaked a "hello", And the ground was frosty To my arrival. This morning, I found a hair of yours Draped over the head of a stone, And that struck me as utterly odd Since you've never been here before now, And this morning at work, My pants were covered in dirt From kneeling before you as the sun came up, But I didn't care, I had to come see you And ask you to keep Your ******* hair to yourself.
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Sep 2, 2018
Sep 2, 2018 at 6:04 PM UTC
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