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#squash
Oh won't you butter my squash? Clean my seeds Like the sins of my past The baked passion inside The oven racks Racks Racks Stack the inner radiance And peal me The smooth orange paste Will feel really zesty Stay here on my cutting board Send knives of kisses Be merciless inside the sink Blinking boiling stink And watch as I eat your intestines
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May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 10:41 AM UTC
butternut squash
Seven flies I’ve killed this dawn The eighth I haven’t got Three above the candle, hot In clap of hands I caught Then one upon the window screen Squashed beneath my palm At last I found the swatter and Struck three by bone of dog But still the eighth remains a threat To my sleeping son But ** Lands upon my page And in death mars the paper red Only then’s revealed a ninth Whose buzz revives the fight Now dead, a tenth flies by my head As I write this in my bed Will there ever be an end? (I thereafter learned to **** them at night As they sleep with a flashlight To find morning respite)
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Feb 16
Feb 16, 2026 at 9:26 PM UTC
Flies