' How does it feel? Kissing James Bond? ' It's hard to recall ;
The first time tastes ... COLD, with a hint of lemon peel & vodka ----- ;
It DANCES on the edges of her lips, a CARNIVAL of memories smeared unintentionally; perhaps it was an ATTEMPT to colonise a moment long GONE, or an antiseptic to STOP the rapidly growing infection in that goddamn organ --- traces, traces of HER. Did he really believe that a speck of GOLD can OUTSHINE smouldering BLACK? How many KISSES would it take to recreate an image of HER? It's almost TRAGIC. And yet she vindicates ALL these SUBCONCIOUS whispers with a TILT of golden crown. Perhaps for ONE night, he can forget.
The second time tastes like ... gunpowder ----- ;
It's a CACOPHONY of noise, an interwoven NET of gunshots, a complex trajectory of DEATH. He REAPS under a FLAYED banner of ' HERO '. IDEALS compressed into a virile MANIFESTATION of the ULTIMATE soldier. And she? She targets HIM. Calculating every GESTURE before pressing FULL lips to COLD metal.
' Kiss your life good-bye, Mr. Bond. '
& with a single, inexorable flick of a finger, the world SHATTERS in a BANG. ( p.s. she was aiming for the shoulder, he liiiiiiives )
The third time tastes like ... a METAL rudiment in his chest ---- ;
She watches a GAME of exchange on the monitor. Zigzag peaks PULSING across a terrain of green. A map of heartbeats charted with phosphorous light. She was never one to advocate SENTIMENTALITY, but undeniably, she FEELS. A throbbing sense of REGRET, a decayed version of GUILT. Gloveless digits brush against a still hand. She often forgets that, in the end, he is HUMAN. A human wrought into a MACHINE. There is a SCARLET display of displeasure as lips press THINLY.
' Well, maybe now's the right time to tell you that ... I took that flash drive ... '
And with that, she presses her frown to his forehead. A rare gesture of something AKIN to affection. Unique for its rarity. A non-linear stray from normalcy.
The fourth time tastes like ... a semicolon carving a paranthesis --- ;
They are the BUZZ of impulses. A thousand blinking MIDNIGHTS chiseled into a relic of DESIRE. Two teeming hosts of RAW, primitive instinct. A gloriously vicious BATTLEFIELD, a terrain of SKIN raked by SHARP nails. The TREACHEROUS appetite hidden in the UNAPPARENT tint of RED. Let her BITE into the CARNAL splendor of FLESH. Galvanize her! Electrify her! Inspire her! Watch GOD find LIGHT in the SAVAGE friction of bodies ---- WATCH THEM BURN.
The fifth time time tastes .... BLUE .... & ..... RED ........ & ..... WHITE .......
She focuses on the chronology of his scars; a faded timeline of VICTORIES. Summers, autumns, springs, winters seeping through the CRACKS in his armour. Each scar a BOOKMARK to an event. It's almost fascinating. She concentrates on this DISPLAY of ideal, finger sliding down his NEWEST conquest. How PATRIOTIC.
' Do you have any tokens from me? '
Comes a question whose answer she KNOWS. She KNOWS where & when she's given him little souvenirs of their more violent encounters. And so, like a cartographer, she pins butterfly kisses to every GIFT she's ever bestowed on him.