Ice and consequence of firebelly
Terraform the
ridges of your mind with pain

Never be someone without
someone else's permission

fleeting
and unable to come around

this is awful
this is all there is

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sitting deep.
doing similar things
for familiar reasons.
sniff it up in the darkness of the room.
wait for the impending pulmonary doom.

press it down.
reserve nasal space
federally.
can't keep up with the shifting of the moods.
waiting for an arterial boom.

She stowed away
with unbridled rage.
I'd entertain
for only seventeen days.
Felt like a lifetime,
she felt like a lifeline.
But I choked back onto
white lines.
And she toed away.

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Phosphorus and malice
and a slack jawed
near-never
opening palace,
wonder:
and I never knew
through any view
his or hers or that one,
how to get through
to you
a clever plume
of smoke for black dawn.