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paper fragments (Free verse) by skaskowski
monuments to my missing memories
litter the streets of an abandoned bedroom city.
i am a cardboard cutout dug out of a photo box,
yellowing and faded.
blown like a candy wrapper
up and down the alley-ways,
chased by countless other shaded,
swirling whirling silhouettes.
it's cold as death
the moon is painted upon the plaster sky
tonight.
i ride on a breath
the wind is a slow soft exhale breathed from her mouth
tonight.
i'm chilled and afraid
my heart is a pasted paper scrap on my glossy chest
tonight
its beats sound like crinkling leaves.
autumn is honestly opening my scotch-taped eyes
tonight.
and that's alright with me.
i'm only part of
a crumbling effigy.
yeah, that's fine with me.
i'd rather be here
than under her blankets,
but see? this roaming refuse
carries my face back to her lips
she breathes.
inhaling my fear-stricken,
bent, sick and sinful sorrow,
tomorrow i'll pass
through her blood.
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