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stale words
these are stale words
that you crack between your
teeth and hand to me,
words cracked like lips in
wintertime and the shell of
a trampled roach and
these are stale words, i do not
want them ("i love you, don't go")
stale words, they are so familiar to
me that i'd recognize them in the
clutter of a street or the cascade of
dream ("you are everything to me")
stale words, dead words, skin like
ash and broken desire, heart stopped
and soul forgotten ("please, i'll do
anything")
stale words, you crack them between
your teeth like walnuts and hold them
out to me --
stale words, i take them into my palms
and hold them close to my chest --
stale words, white in my hands like darkness,
stale words that i cannot help but raise
to my mouth and force my throat to accept
("i promise")
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