| In life I’m skin stretched to form my body. |
| With life
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| We can hope to grow old alone. |
| In life all is well.
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| Strapped empty to a placid dream. |
| In the fields is where
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| I belong. |
| Blistered text and bleeding pens.
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| In life we are one. |
| Extensions of each other. |
| With life
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| We can find that death is on the outside, in life all
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| is Well, left dancing a laughing tree. |
| In the hills is where I Belong. |
| Blistered text and bleeding pens.
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| Venice please will you hide my face and change my Eyes. |
| Friends aren’t friends. |
| They look to themselves.
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| Their advice is wrong. |
| Selfish. |
| Blatant. |
| On the Bridge
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| of Sighs a piece of bleeding art. |
| Mold me still with
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| plaster
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| Joints and a pompous grin. |
| I shall die within my song.
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| Your life for my life.
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| Your life for my life.
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| Your life for my life.
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| Your life for my life.
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| The Rialto. |
| Buy here, sell there. |
| I see a face.
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| Carletta.
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| The Rialto. |
| Thieves and lovers, mimes and jugglers,
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| Read me poems from Venetia. |
| Of tired men with hearts
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| Of gold. |
| Of the whore without a neck. |
| So the palace
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| Guards could not take her head. |
| Dead. |
| My. |
| Head.
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| In pools we swirl beyond the point of transition. |
| All
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| Must try. |
| All must fail.
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| The Renaissance Ants crawl deep in her mouth,
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| Yea. |
| Across her breasts and within her thighs. |
| Christ
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| has
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| Known these thighs before. |
| The Ants of Enlightenment
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| Have her moaning to their cause. |
| She chews on the
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| Ants still trapped in her teeth. |
| Christ has known this
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| Mouth before.
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| At the Grand Canal Carletta cries. |
| The gondolier
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| Says, «Wipe your face, whore». |
| I just laugh, now
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| looking
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| Down. |
| The gondola’s a paper swan. |
| Pulp.
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| On the mezzanine I watch the old man scream. |
| Like
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| Cats ripping doves apart wing by wing. |
| Violins,
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| Tangerines, and one glass eye. |
| I love Carletta and with
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| That I sigh.
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| Who wins? |
| Who wins you? |
| Forgive? |
| Forgive. |
| I could
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| Not choose; |
| and both poets lose. |
| We lose. |