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golden oldie (Free verse) by calliope
i passed like film through a lateral trap,
my benign insides crudely crushed by the
topographic map.
i felt the pines injecting
sap into my back with needles.
and i was slapped awake by
a half-baked monkey
covered in lime from his hard water
shower,
and crudely collecting quartz from his
rocky underbed.
and i peeled a strange slimy shape from the wall
and threw it at his paw,
he covered up his jaw
and saw my crucial flaw.
and then he mauled me,
dear god, he calmed me.
all the while, while bleeding
i felt stress releasing.
so i picked out the monkey teeth
from my skin.
and pulled the thorny wreath
from my brow.
i felt as though the breadth
of our sin,
is as close to death
as we see now.
and then i decided to scrap such subleties
and engulf upon vagrant frivolity.
i am a living being
and life imbibes me to pine for my
primal instincts.
so i tore a lip off the ship's chef
and threw it into his own stew.
i find that ironic,
how 'bout you?
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