Effete body as one skims roadkill or Iddesleigh I raise my chin to him, pleading to a wafting chest
But he pats my head and crouches down low For his midnight snack
10. ANKITA ANAND
THE RIDE BEFORE THE FALL
Sweet insists on coupling sour to give that ingenuous taste; rhapsody fondly carries on its back the promise of self-ruination. The certainty of obliteration keeps the forward march on. There is just so much of this life that was worthy of living. Now a new one must be created, which can’t happen without effacing the previous. Therefore this joy in destruction. The tremors are not those of fear; the shoot trembles in trying to tear through the roof of the soil.
CARDIO-DIAGNOSIS A heart bursting at the seams with unspeakables. Restraining orders no good. How can bubbles be compressed into droplets? What the heck, then. Burst it will.
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