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Let’s divide the sky, you and I, With Wilco tapping our gut, our eyes, Supplanting the clouds from our grape cigars; We’ve been folded, too creased to remember Those country nights, those starry remnants when I would Always point east with a fettered finger. If I held it long enough, just enough, Horns would bud, deviling my digit, And the fireplace froze over. I destroy homes and fall, fall, fall with them. I play the bench observer, Cigarette **** to people with permanent smiles. ‘Relax,’ you said ‘you need to relax,’ But your lips chapped and bleeding-- They resemble mine in humid daylight, And the sky moistens and melts To the tantalizing tune, yellowed summerteeth.
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 1:06 PM UTC
The Bench
Let’s divide the sky, you and I, With Wilco tapping our gut, our eyes, Supplanting the clouds from our grape cigars; We’ve been folded, too creased to remember Those country nights, those starry remnants when I would Always point east with a fettered finger. If I held it long enough, just enough, Horns would bud, deviling my digit, And the fireplace froze over. I destroy homes and fall, fall, fall with them. I play the bench observer, Cigarette **** to people with permanent smiles. ‘Relax,’ you said ‘you need to relax,’ But your lips chapped and bleeding-- They resemble mine in humid daylight, And the sky moistens and melts To the tantalizing tune, yellowed summerteeth.
In response to a Sylvia Plath assignment...
colin-carpenter
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 1:06 PM UTC
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