My Putrid Lover

My Putrid Lover

My lover dreams

of acrid smells

and putrid tangs

I lick

(disheveled hair adorns)

her feet

I scale

the shrink-warped body.

I vomit semen

that her lips ingest.

And youth defies her.

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