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On the Color of Queer Death
the canvas screeches // a melody // you hum // yourself to sleep with // across square inches // life morphs // into death // and back again // a graceful dance // of (post) modern misery // so present // already gone // and here again // what kind of future will // look back at this // horror of the prick // puncture of pink hellfire // our love made // a painting // our bodies // cut open // an autopsy for ages // bad blood // bad eggs // worse sperm // faint footsteps echo // in an empty room // I fall elsewhere // then here // again