Thursday, 27 May 2010

Once upon a time there was a couple
who could no longer afford their addiction
so decided to make their own drugs
out of each other.
He took a strand of her hair and pressed the end
to a vein on the inside of his elbow.
The hair was sucked inside and he fell asleep.
She ran her nails up and down the dry skin of his face
and piled the flakes on the kitchen table.
Dividing the pile into a few narrow lines she breathed in
every bit of him
and sat awake for the rest of her life
waiting for his eyes to open.

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