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Nailed Flailed and Bailed (But I’m Not Bitter)

Bruce Matteson

Your beauty kills me
Not all at once
With mercy and peace
But in pieces
Like the bites of red ants
That stop to dance
With mouths
Full of me
Splattering the walls
With my juice
In their frenzied joy
Oh boy
Your gentle grace
Erases my face
And back spaces my words
And thoughts
And hungers
And dreams
And it seems
Like I’m not even here
And never was
For ever more and
The flowers you leave
Are not to bereave
But to help you keep score

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