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Want to see where the end begins and the fun
      never ends?

Her tongue stumps Sphinxes.
We both think: Is this love?
Gun chatter shatters the empty space in time,
and now she isn't feeling talkative.
We part ways
by parting dirty sheets, turning to opposite
      bedsides
nude, she smirks smacks her lips, You aren't as
      handsome as you assume
rude, skin scent of papaya fruit, taste tangy,
      spicy
then we get clothed -- her
tying a dress, shawls, I
my gun (wasn't very far, clothes never came off)
and I listen tentative, stomach primitive to her
      footsteps shrinking dead


buzzing silence
hurts a little, doesn't draw a tear, but hurts a
      little.


6.
Spit me out can't grind me up, I'm rusted iron.
Best advice is find a trustworthy Eve, she'll know
      the basics
like count extra skips in double-dutch, don a
      smaller leaf
let guys and snakes double touch; all-out circus.
      I'm anxious boy
Robert Neville anxious, Vincent Price in The Last
Man on Earth
alone --
Man, man, man . . . this is what it's come to -- chewing stalk, stalk chewing at my gums
and this is my life: recruiter tells me Money is
      worth its weight in service,