glossy purple lips pluck drooping nylon strings hooked into the muddy gourd before we made a doll out of her skin we asked her to extract pulp & seeds on the staircase where our tea over-steeped, turned bitter we don't recall her name she's kissing our song
Written in response to Big Tent Poetry’s Monday Prompt for 11 October 2010
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