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To Dry These Tears
My Darling,
hunt me a soul,
a doomed soul,
a damned soul.
I shall wait and weep,
hiding the plumb crescents
bruising underneath my eyes
until you return to me.
You have promised me a soul
with which to dry this messy leak-ing
steadily creep-ing
from eyelids clamped shut.
The other day, you told me I looked
a little dead around the eyes, Dear,
so the technical term for the monstrosity
dampening my face would be
dead tears.
Darling, isn’t it obvious?
No ordinary tissues will do.
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