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A Widowed Muse

To be sure, you'll outlive me

you with your quinoa
and your couscous
and your mornings in the gym

mornings I'm lucky to wake
from whatever poisons I take
to wiggle the pen at night

to scribble in ink

to put a piece of you to paper

to be sure you'll outlive me.
Written by penpaul
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