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Desperado

it could have been substantial
those lost decades
something you could write about voiceless
the women tarts
spicy and damaged
you used each other numerously
Desperado
what makes you breakable
does your history bewilder the wild child
preferring to leave them all at dawn whispering
why
you've heard tell
to know Eve is to know all
why do you run from the descendants of Eve
wild child
with your speeding life
fleeting youth
you are a premature old one
a bitter knowingness
coldly blond
ghostly pale face
you bring with you dark clouds
ripped savagely by lightning of another's darkness
a questioning stalemate
you had to flee
shut the fuck up – just shut up
huh
don't go there
don't go back there

sure, no harm meant
just trying to shape your disorder
you burn with anger at life
chewing it up and spitting it out so callously
are you there
will I see you at the last
have you a neck by which to throttle you
have you a heart
damn you eternally have you a soul
I am about to take a new lover
she can give me what you cannot


death is not a lover
oh yes she is

©June 26, 2016 / Jerry Pat Bolton
Written by standingmyground
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