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Junk Therapy


Late night love affair,
wet with the anger of passion,
in the protection of my crusty sheets
I think about you
Rachel

Drops of painful comfort
tripping
across my chaste spine,
her flesh burns like vodka tonight
into the hungover remains of my throat,
now a dead end of
sedatives and midnight black coffee

Shallow pleasure,
rations of sweat,
I feel her all over me,
her ugly body--
the only beautiful thing between us.
She isn't even worth the space on this page.

Rachel
these words have always been slaves
I only did this for you--
meaningless bitches,
freaks,
this language of disease
paralyzed in frustration to cemented paper
I need to escape our poem
so I can become the
rank shadow your heart desires


Yogesh Chawla

This poem is appearing in the Book
Atlas on Crack

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