your beautiful beauty like sentiment of
desirability desire like anything other
than the fear of being unfulfilled
unfulfilled or Foe bold like the bellies
of boastful buyers their breaths
burrowing into my nasal ripe like the
living memory of some unconsented touch
or an extraction perhaps extraction
which is just theft of nutrients
sometimes you call it rape before your
breath grows too short extraction like
syringes on breasts of lactating mothers
mothers whose toddlers are kidnapped
these children are forced to learn the
speech patterns of cockroaches at night…
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