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Scarlet

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dwkeiko

Published: Jun 16, 2011

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Literature Text

I like the color of scarlet

I like the ways to obtain it

The sound of your air, choking in the base of your throat

Bulging eyes, all whites, veins bursting

That delicious red

I like the music of your cracking bones, the final snap

The pool surrounding your body, how it grows and grows

...I like the color of scarlet

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Another old poem; I'm just putting up all my old stuff so it's all together in one convenient place

I like darker poems, I'm a twisted individual like that