i tortured a love by dividing it into two,<\/p>\n
through metal picks, sharp threads, gummy sheets, curved scissors–any weapon that i choose<\/p>\n
they fought to become uniform,<\/p>\n
across my forehead, inching toward the other once again, thick with want, lusting forlorn<\/p>\n
until i pulled them from the middle,<\/p>\n
as always, guarding that they were apart, cleaned sharp, never allowing myself to be unbridled.<\/p>\n
but, i removed all the women before me<\/p>\n
whose names were drawn, by a deep hand, in the dark furrow where hung my history.<\/p>\n
now, i cooed to them, to grow,<\/p>\n
and they are stubborn, deafened and indifferent with my worries for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
you did this to yourself,<\/p>\n
so they have selected to fall away one by one, through suicide and swore, until nothing is left.<\/p>\n
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