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Fall Romance

I want to marry a terrorist,
get grit in my khakis
while I squat to pack munitions,
brush a blush of gunpowder
onto my cheek.

I want to be hardly there at all.

When we rut
I want to be unreflected
in opaque eyes,
a crater
burnt and sifted after.

Margaret O'Connor


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