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"They gave her lady lips and a tea set​…​"

from Six Sonnets and Some Wild Words Resurrected from the Last Century by swampmessiah

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They gave her lady lips and a tea set.
Now she’s seen in large bathrooms
with a whole in her wallet,
sobbing that Edward is her doom.
It had been years since he last touched
the fur on her shoulders—
the sable wrap she always wore.
She is tedious, like a dream,
yet we’re drawn to her,
she’s like a sunset
or a forest in flames—
we think the ephemeral is weak
and gives us a hard-on.
Those bathrooms are man-made traps.

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swampmessiah Saint Paul, Minnesota

I was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1957. I've been drawing all my life and painting since about 1975; I started writing poetry and rants in, maybe, 1976; since 1996 I've been recording those poems and rants, usually with a "musical" backing.
I live in Saint Paul, Minnesota. My partner and I have two children. I have a day job that is in no way artistic.
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