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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Personal · #1010870
A shape poem originally written on a barroom napkin.
solvent--intoxicant
bleeds the blood of cleanliness
mistaken holiness--in this
shallow bowl
(the inebriated soul)
knowing nothing
save the emptiness
i drink alone
before
i'm made
whole
again
thus listless and tired
forever more--i must go







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