Prohibited
My thighs are strong and chaste
They revoke those invitations
Which my deferential mouth
Would unknowingly make
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Behind my ribs a vulturous heart
Hungers for impermanence
I idle in this flesh, in this obedience
To my ancestral responsibilities
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The mirror does not compose me
But the sea with her malformations
And misappropriations of light
Understands that I, too, am volatile
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I live that you may adorn me
Mute and malleable
I suffer the gloaming
For therein lies those dreams
Which I am forbidden
On waking to personify
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