what happens to the love
when someone dies..
the true kind, raw and carnal
tender as a drunken kiss
or spring rain

I'd like to believe that it doesn't rot
like so many carcasses
that the maggots cannot touch the iron-soft
resilience

it splays out and keeps moving
filling the empty places
burned by memory
growing
and growing

...hurts like fuck doesn't it?

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