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Purse


Purse

your lips for me, my dear

and sink into them

divets for my tongue

in a dream to explore

as you rifle through your

Purse

for a maybe tube of lipstick

to soften the bleeding hearts

of poets in sportsjackets 

who offer desperate cigarettes

and long for the moment

your lips

Purse

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