the view from up here

1.

you are an infestation between the legs,

laborious spittle & flailing limbs.

sonnets would diminish the soothe &

the ache of a man like you, olive skins &

pits & locked jaws of faux amour fou.

you softened the concrete edges of my

brain, adonis at my bedpost.

2.

you are an infestation between the legs,

wailing water of the womb, i scrutinized

the grainy hospital photograph; you,

crushed clump of clotted cells & blood,

love child born of lust, could i smother

your dainty silver chest gasping for

breath? did you want me to love you?

did you want to live?

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