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i’ll compose us
as fiction,

to preserve you,
in marble,

to stitch your skin
into the page,

i’ll read it over, i’ll stroke
its yellowed gold
fibers,

i’ll rip each crispy leaf
from its binding and
chew, chew to
swallow it
down..

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to fully digest it
to feel you

at depths more
profound.

Grumpy Gorman
igram: https://www.instagram.com/gèèrumpygorman/?hl=

image adapted from painting by Butayban at – https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/527906387540481441/

..long as my greedy reader’s allowed.