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alone in the black of dawn's dark kindling
he remembered what it was to feel her stir
and just past the bend where cold flames flickered
he swore he'd make an effigy of her
but the effigy became a cistern
with points of entry in its sides
each drop of rain a prison sentence
for an unborn liquid bride
he drank from her filthy reservoir
and felt his stomach fill with leaves
torn and heavy like wet paper
slow the way a lover grieves
and as he fell to drown within her
rats patrolled his pimpled skin
poised to drain the milk it carried
with enamel razor thin
one arm feeds the other
behold the serpent's heart
and in the east a pale sun rises
beating down on all it governs
you are but a drum of oil
and i am just a tamed disease
stripped of all its menace
take pity on me
would you please?
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