I Want to Leak Blood, 2022

I want to leak blood

all over the fields of red poppies and tombstones

all over the city streets at night

all over the suburbs and their houses backyards

just so that theres a little less of me inside.

I want to taste the mourning dove

as it bleeds white marbles

as it crumbles under my breath

as it is shattered in fragments like glass

just so death can enter my body and I can know it truly.

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Yet the time has come

for sleep to dream in the hour

for fantasies of melancholy and spices

to overwhelm the living.

Yet of in this moment

I daydream of that hour of sleep

coming farther and farther into the distance

where my emotions linger in oblivion

asking my soul why it had left.

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So please, o please, love,

let me bleed,

so I can spread my green blood

all over this dark hour.

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