the long, pale dawn

Should I think myself to inaction, I will be a dead bot by morning.

A thought-sick lithium messenger

Should I love myself to violet-haired charm, I will write 10,000 lines of small, dark poetry and bathe extremities to dislocation.

wane to beauty, to cliff-hearted loveliness

Should I hold myself in the light, I will sink from the sunbeams.

give ocean breath a chance

Should I falter, I will sleep away a dizzy comedown.

 

The truth is that

swans want nothing to do with me,

and the long, pale dawn stains my hands.

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