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Rated: E · Poetry · Experience · #1714689
Why do I write?
Sacrament

Ink runs the corners of my mouth.
My tongue is black,
a fragment
of parchment
just in the middle
like some publisher's last Eucharist.
This is my blood,
and fruit of the spirit,
this manna,
that forces me to eat.
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