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Love Decomposed MAG

October 12, 2015
By caliban.bird BRONZE, Fort Collins, Colorado
caliban.bird BRONZE, Fort Collins, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
"Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV?" -Morty


the air, static with hesitation,
hovers around our bodies like crisp starched
linen.
nice enough for a funeral.
enough.
enough.
enough.
i am not
enough.
the taste of your tongue in my mouth
(wet sawdust and vinegar)
filling all my cracks and crevices and
cavities.
the sky the same gray
as the whites of your eyes.
my eyes like moons,
craters a decade deep.
no evidence of life ever recorded.
and you
and i
will decompose concertos,
like priests.


The author's comments:

This piece is meant to encompass the feeling when love is fading, an inevitabilty we all face.


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on Oct. 31 2015 at 12:09 am
mwilliams SILVER, Nashville, Tennessee
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Favorite Quote:
"People will always choose safety over freedom" -Napoleon Boneparte

This is beautiful.

on Oct. 18 2015 at 4:50 pm
writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
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Favorite Quote:
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Great job! I like all of the imagery! Please keep writing! :)