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Forensics (Tinder Truth)

By Mark DeCarteret

 

crows pontificate
one morning & I know
all I need to know of their hell

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I cupped your heart
as if trying to keep it
from flight

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the sun's done its damage
my memories reduced to an ember
on the surface of each eye

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A wasp beds down into night
things outlived are now
outlined in even more light

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the room damns my output
w/so many of us saved
we must drink from a Styrofoam chalice

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when the sky is just right
a coupon for hair gel or cereal
can read like a death sentence

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a body licensed & scanned
for its oft-misplaced promises
eventually burning w/the best of them

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corridor after corridor
of unnecessary wires
let the grave markers sing!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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