Spring Vignettes

You tell me
that I'm white, crisp, and clean
And if it were only summer
you would wear me.

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I'd like to prescribe your lips
to the slashing wound
But that would be nonsense--
Since your lips were your weapon.
And I am nonsense
for inviting them to cut.

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Much like devouring rich flower petals
only to realize their ravishing perfume is poison.
This was your kiss.
And I chose to die.

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Wash my entire soul
in vats of honey
And I will still say
Your one true kiss was sweeter.

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You touched my skin
as if it was the finest cream silk.
You forgot my heart was finer still.
You knew my love
and then considered it a fake.
But only you were false.

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You seem to think that in sky diving
a jumper can return to the plane
when he feels fear
or fall upward
once he has committed to landing.
These, too, your thoughts on love.

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--written sometime in the Spring of 2001, emo