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Afterwards, we’ll all remember having seen it coming

     
I’m an atomic bomb of a woman      
living in a hand grenade dress      
a chest charged with bullets      
trip wires for eyelashes      
dressing my catastrophic dead      
     
I want my remains      
to be wheeled through London      
stopping traffic without care
angry drivers shouting obscenities      
forgetting in the end      
we all ride out with no address      
     
and I feel as if      
I’m marching through Leningrad      
tattooing Chernobyl on my thigh      
howling through the rubble      
of my ground-zero heart      
     
because I’m war-torn, love—      
     
I speak to destroy      
     
drowning in secrets and suicide      
watching bodies pile up      
year-upon-year      
     
some nights you’ll find me      
a metal pin between my teeth      
wanting to taste      
exactly what its like      
to exist without fear
   
     
 
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