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• Departure
  your hand, weathered, withered,
  long overworked, now laid to rest
  on my young, lazy knee;
  and in your sky-coloured eyes
  the sparkle of your smile, the sun that's now set.
  
  
• Gallows
  no matrimonial shift,
  consummatorially stained,
  cuffed, anchored by the
  chastity gallows unbalancing the hands.
  
  
• Treasure/Trash
  Schrödinger's box, coveted
  for its promise-laden mystery.
  
  
• Victor
  close your eyes
  hold your breath
  bob the sour apple
  sink your teeth in
  pierce the shielding skin
  ravage the yielding flesh
  
  
• Slaughter
  "there!" you crow, "another spark!"
  (a mere postmortem twitch of tendon)
  and ZIP whip about and piss out
  the hopeless speck of life
  
  
• Acting
  I'm always wrong.
  fall prey to plagues, diseases,
  your lips—vile—vial,
  slow acting poison.
  lie to me, I
  lie with you.
  
  
• For You
  though dazzling dawn will drown me out,
  every night I rise to
  make white light dance for you
  longing to be bright as day
  
  
• Mystic
  do we flow from one river or two, tumbling confusedly where we meet? a lump like your teeth closing on my throat chokes me, bruises me.
  
  
• Plateaus
  we sweat; the heat is always on.
  the hot-coal earth throws us forever forward
  while our hearts fall behind,
  withering, dying, ignored.
  
  
• Exit Wound
  my eyes bled tears
  as my fingers, not my lips,
  bled words this dawn.
  as I slept, I hemmorhaged