Sunday, January 25, 2009

Lament

“…You may
blame Aphrodite

soft as she is

she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy.”

- Sappho

Whiskey and sex,
Wicked men, cigarettes.
Why I love what makes me cry:

There’s a little death in all of them
And a little of me that wants to die.

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