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new coats for nihilists

November 28, 2022
By per PLATINUM, Spartanburg, South Carolina
per PLATINUM, Spartanburg, South Carolina
39 articles 11 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde


i was a silent beggar
with skinned cherry knees
and lotus cheeks.

nude in a
cigarette ash and peppermint oil
bath.
i clasped my stubby fingertips
around your cloak,
a tea-stained bedsheet smelling of
Goethe and chamomile.
a newborn with
sticky limbs and watery eyes;
i begged for skin in
any size.

scanning with panoramic eyes,
pallid and piercing in the
velvet air
for your hue.


The author's comments:

this is one of my favorite poems I have written!

- p.e.r


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Lydiaq ELITE said...
on Nov. 30 2022 at 5:51 pm
Lydiaq ELITE, Somonauk, Illinois
172 articles 54 photos 1026 comments

Favorite Quote:
The universe must be a teenage girl. So much darkness, so many stars.
--me

WOW! That's great.