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smoke a pack and a half a day

watch the way her brown eyes
look at me

my bed is an island
(my guts say “boo-hoo”)

selfishness bleeds out of me
like sap
and i drink it up

i don’t self-deprecate
just like the way
my skin tastes
–
breathing gold and paint

ignore it
ignore it
ignore it

–
sand in my eyes