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    pressed flowers, never smell like spring again

    you’re the most hideous flower
    ever pressed in to my palms.

    i frequently leave my hands behind dusty bookshelves
    for your peddles to be stumbled upon
    when my fingers tremble like loose leaf
    in virgin fingerprints
    behind back corners of back corners
    of secret hallways in libraries for the dead,
    to remember where they’ve been.

    we're everyones dirty secret.

    whisperers spit our papercuts
    like journalists
    and the illiterate wipe their faces across the welts
    we call wedding bands,
    wishing our scars could spell truth in braille.

    the archives of our introduction
    became obituaries,
    and the death you hid behind the veil
    has become reason enough to spill more ink;
    if only i hadn't bent the tip of this feather
    trying to hammer the day we began to Live
    on your tombstone,
    and we didn't love in reverse
    get dressed before intercourse
    smile before you'd cum
    resist before i'd force

    Evil
    -was written across the stone we call home,
    on the day we signed the deed
    and did former
    to which transformed seed into a hollow tree
    that i split and pressed into sheets of grief
    with beautiful tragedies doodled like child's play
    to entice a read.

    the book we wrote, has no authors note
    - and the back cover reads:
    Hold Me.

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    Re: pressed flowers, never smell like spring again

    read ex.machina & spoken.

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    Re: pressed flowers, never smell like spring again

    a lot of cool stuff in here. I liked the "behind back corners of back corners" line and how that whole stanza leads to the emphatic dirty secret quotable. Only throw-off was peddels should be petals, but you know that.
    This whole part:
    the archives of our introduction
    became obituaries,
    and the death you hid behind the veil
    has become reason enough to spill more ink

    is gold. The insinuations you give through the reverse-ordered lines is good too. It reads a little off-beat because of the way the previous lines transition, but it is a cool idea.
    I haven't got all of this yet, so I'll have to re-read it.
    can I kick it?

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    Re: pressed flowers, never smell like spring again

    This was an AWESOME piece very very well written and great description, I can only hope to write this well at some point!!!!
    Smiless

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    Re: pressed flowers, never smell like spring again

    haha, always love your feedback spoke. thanks fam.

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