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Dec 30
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eyesofIris

twenties

i’m young & inconsolable.
i slip from your infinity-pool mind &
catch my toes on tiles while you skin an apple alive,
curved crimson rind turned to crumpled core.
i watch my mirror-self cry. o midnight mascara’d mess,
you ripped-pantyhose haikus-on-cocktail-napkins darling.

 
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Posted: 12.30.21
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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Dec 31, 2021

    AAAAH! This is wonderful!
    "I slip for your infinity pool mind"

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  1. eyesofIris
    Dec 31, 2021

    Thank you!! :)) & happy new year!

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  1. thegreenone
    Jan 01, 2022

    naaaiiice

    no way a male poet?! yes way

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  1. eyesofIris
    Jan 04, 2022

    :) thank you!

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