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Pathos Eros

By Rich Murphy

 

The tit-for-tat of domestic inmates

courts vacation homes, automobiles,

and golf courses. We sip our due

from each other’s shoes

 

to free our mattress of sides.

Passionate to secure the potential

contents of the other’s pockets, 

the sex partners executing business feats

 

with bubbles of imitation celebrity,

skin the knees of their spoiled children

who are groomed, each to share

a slow death with a spiteful stranger.

 

From among the thieves that marriage

alarms with its vaults and customer service,

two millionaires dance drunk

from behind one another’s eyes: one

 

emulates the palm of a hand; the other

assimilates the teeth of a smile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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