Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Fragments 8

Just last night I shook her treasonous hand.

Next time she will be more afraid to steal:

She will be silent or I will shred her

Into ribbons fit for the hair of queens.

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Hollow bones and brutal pride are coupled

With decay (relentless, always the price).

The privilege of the skies is a swift end.

Some lovers are too much for their feathers.

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Sirens at stoplights,

our mortality.

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(Sitting in a chair with eyes like venom,

How lovely, the vibrant hues of poison!)

Our temporary problems are resolved

In simulacra of aged French novels

That were written by two men, yet by none.


There is a beauty in futility

That remains unmatched through the rifts of time.

In heavy summer days it sleeps, famished.

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