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Silver Sword (Free verse) by Bachus
You were no bouquet, mother
Fitting, for the bottom of a crater
Your love ran me through
Mad, I held out my hands
from your menstruation
Like Some Mesopotamian -
- Necromancer cackling at the
moon: His reflexion, hunched over
Fissures of smoke and fire.
I consumed mushrooms by the -
- handful, held UFOs in the palm of my eye
And of course... Was rear-ended by
An entire alien armada, forced to fly
Cliche into the minds of millions
Fuck mahogany sauce spoons
You were the dragon's low jaw
Had you stole my soul?
Oh, I think so...
Yes, and virginity!
Called me a new god
Rubbed me down, as if -
- I'd run the message from war
To hell, and I did with your
fingerprints 'bove a heel.
I guess you knew sleeping with me meant
Chemical Babylon and bent beyond heaven,
but -- It takes two to fuck, and I'm sorry,
but I lucked it, and it... Was probably better
Than the first time we met, I get, every
last bit of it, like a library; Woman
I make shadow from paper to tree
And mark heads with ash, a priest
darker by far than you, I grew
The outcome from ancient genes
And love, thick-fist-ed, and consistent
I keep the Mary, the Jesus, the ghost.
But the sun... What a fucker
Comes banging up my ass
Again, I win, the pauper
And who was I to write the book?
But just the clown to read it.
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