2 poems (***)
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Dead as a broken moon
Sober as a leaf of a proud tree
Flimsy like pearls of dew in the wind
Tired like evaporated moisture
Free as the yolk in a broken egg
Quiet as a dead man in an evening cemetery
I drink the silence of calm before the execution
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V. Burich
Wanting love is like lying on the tram tracks
Water is jealous of the density of air in a smoky apartment
You smoke a lot and you’re addicted
I’m addicted to you and your night breath
I’m addicted to your airy body
You’re bending over with a roll-your-own cigarette in your mouth like a sexy snake
Let’s go drink the air of a park frozen in winter time
You won’t come and will continue to smoke alone
I’m also lonely but I don’t smoke
You will die of lung cancer, but I have already died of love for you
We say goodbye lying on two parallel tram tracks
We don’t even say goodbye we just resign ourselves to sleep
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The second verse seems to me emblematic of the sort of toxic relationship which develops when two souls, each lacking something in their own lives, come together. They feel they have found what the both seek, to stoke the fires of rebirth, but all they really rediscovered were only the smouldering embers of future disappointment.