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Mimi Jun 2023
Everything I have is marred by splotches of colour.
The stains of where I’ve been are so painfully plain.
It crusts the scarred surface of skin.
If I peel it away, it bleeds.
You say you can’t live without me?
Well I can’t bear to live with you.

The colour of you tried to hide my scars,
And now all I do is pick at the scabs.
Trying to find what was real.
Was anything real?
I loved you and I would’ve done anything for you.
That’s part of my problem.
Isn’t it?

The past is always in the future,
Just regrets and memories.
A twisted palette of gore and blue.
If I tore my flesh,
Could I paint something true?
Or would it still be stained by you?
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2019
A roti, is a flat round bread,
so, we are almost there, time
for a baker to pay tribute to
Luciana Pavarotti di Modena,
besides, it was the profession
of his father, who it was, that
yeasted this magnificent tenor.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2018
I'm going in search
of a memory.

Because I never said
arrivederci, to

Luciana Giannini,
somewhere in Brindisi.

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I'm Sorry.

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