“Darling, who made you believe stumbling down the aisle was like marching to your death on bloodstained knees? How did it ever come to this? You, thinking love to be a monster sent to torch your lungs and make the atlas in your blood collapse future lineages because you’re afraid.”
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Burned Tongues: Poems
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