#fortray

meat and bones

ravenous dog digging

teeth into rapturous youth

/ she's immaculate vice

and tender candor

strip me apart in layers

devour with cautious abandon

/ dirt and meat

skin and bones

to make hell of a body

with a soft grazing hand"

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bloody-knuckled reasons not to keep it

like a hole in the wall

a stubborn longing

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it's sweet molasses on my fingertips

unspoken words grazing your tongue

you were a broken bone in my able body

i am a toy at the bottom of your chest

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to thrive off of neglect

bathing in emptiness

like that pale bedroom moonlight

your breath on the back of my neck

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