daylily
raze what wildflower is this
that blooms for just
one day and dies, bending
back into itself with
all the naked frailty
of a spotlit sigh?

no foxglove or
black-eyed susan
would surrender so.

if i pluck the petals
from its face and let
them river down the
runnel of my throat,
will i be satiated?

or will i choke on
colchicine and the
ruddy mud of my
own unmaking?
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from