These slutty flowers,
dishing out their seed
like lawless slot-machines:
"first come first served!"

This sieve of emotion
can no longer stand-
can no longer find
balance between
the nuggets of truth
and the fleeting passage
of souls once canonized
by delusions of purity.

06/03/2010

Author's Note: shout out to Roethke.

Posted on 06/03/2010
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