BLACK LIE
By Kim Copeland Climb out of the hole, deftly dug by your shovel of a tongue. Climb your way up the dark black of a lover's back. Straddle, grapple straddle, grapple roots with rookie hands. Stand, imagine his thick lips, his rigid skin of night, of youth slip further, worlds further from the purest, pearl white truth.
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