Closer


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Drawing of red eyes.

“What is Love?
The need to emerge from oneself.
Man is an animal which adores.
To adore is to sacrifice and prostitute onself.”
-Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals


Touch the body
that’s quadrupled in count,
feel my breath pick up.
Have the body
that will be so empty
when the antipsychotics are out,
gored like a pomegranate
being scooped from inside.

Eat the heart
that lured you into this house.
Gorge on my alveoli
like they’re my seeds of life,
not empty when you’re finished,
just no more.