3.15.2018

Youthful Mating Calls

It takes a sick word
like "vivisection"
to clean between the tines.
When your tongue's cut
licking envelopes
is the last sign
that it's over.

If the smell of citronella
doesn't bring you back
to swatting gnats
then it's best
we killed our baby
and whatever else was shared.

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