Your virus supports
The frame on which it preys.
I have a heart full of tricks,
Of safes that open at the nudge
Of your hard-pressed ear.
I receive no wages for enduring you
Though every now and then my mind
Goes up in flames braving
Your funereal breath and the refuse
Of its own failings.
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When you die I’ll throw a party
Like none hitherto witnessed.
Your portrait a chameleon,
A constellation of pitiless courts
Dead center like a sulking deity.
Later I’ll weep, the pus
Of these troubled wounds
Leaking riotously over your effigy.
The moment your eyes close
Mine will again open
Full as they might be.
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