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enduring love.

This morning I woke up with starving lips and oily thoughts:

the taste of you hung damply on the tip of my tongue

and the smell of your cologne; skin; and hair

mingled sweetly still in my lungs.

I lay in bed and ached for your calcium frame, your firm flesh,

your virgin mouth and pearl-grey ears.

Darling, you taste so beautiful.

Later, I removed your dry white fears

and folded the scattered thoughts you flung so carelessly on the floor.

Lest you worry that they shall go to waste, I promise you that

I shall bury them deep in my womb,

where they will take seed and fester the greedy wound

of my enduring love,

so that you

will be forever remembered.

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