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Cyanide Heart

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Lying on the lawn on an autumn day,
I weep with the culms of grass,
long with the leaves on the trees;
with these blind spots in my vision,
no sun, but black holes puncture
this very dreary sky.

Light flares burned these holes in my retinas,
watching the goddess in the evening dress
smoke her cigarette - sunshine bursting
from quaternion equations; indescribable
beauty in thousands of iterations.

I kissed a hundred denatonium
stained lips since I ceased
being rich and now my arm is shattered
and I can't play the cello anymore.

You took the sun with you when
you left and made being alive
nothing but a distant memory.
There is no life without light;
there's no life without light,
no life without love, no love
left in this blazing darkened sky.

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Oh, there's nothing quite like a day spent
in a cloud of ether vapour - amazing
what fun things you can do with
a Bunsen burner...

The others in the lab keep pretending
our work still had a point. They don't know
that the very matter, dark and light -
the very matter that made anything matter
is gone from this lonely planet earth,
leaving us to die in an eternal quiet night.
Life must be good if you don't know the smell of almonds.
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"Light flares burned these holes in my retinas,
watching the goddess in the evening dress
smoke her cigarette - sunshine bursting
from quaternion equations; indescribable
beauty in thousands of iterations." the language in this stanza is absolutely breathtaking, i have no words to describe the mesmerizing fluidity of each image to each line. i desperately want to hear this in your voice. then this, 

"
The others in the lab keep pretending
our work still had a point. They don't know
that the very matter, dark and light - 
the very matter that made anything matter
is gone from this lonely planet earth,
leaving us to die in an eternal quiet night." of all the poetry i have read in 2014 thus far, this stanza has to be my favourite. this is not a compliment, this is truth.