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July 20, 2015
By esthercurly PLATINUM, DPO, Other
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." –George R.R. Martin

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I met Darkness.

You inhaled in my mouth
And smoke ran through my capillaries.
Shake my blood dry—
Clench my bones thin—
Wrap your hair into
My leaking pupils as I
Choke.
Let me sleep in the
Deep creases of your soles.
Hold my hand in your teeth and
Drown me in you—
Infinite nothing.

© Ashley F., Quincy, MA

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