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People stay all the time where we know they should not.
Even more, they stay where THEY know they should not. Against reason. At the risk of their bodies. At the risk of their sovereignty. At the risk of their heart.
We humans are nothing if not tenaciously obtuse in the face of a story that wants to end itself.
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Black Widow by Stewart Stafford
She blinds me with her caress.
Hand upon my chest,
Venom kisses like snake bites
ecstatic and unbecoming night.
She drags me to her tomb,
graveyard of many a groom,
Lovers wrapped in silken lace,
In webs of death, find their place.
Creeping dawn on morn,
Frostbitten and reborn,
Clinging on so tight,
Her kiss, the shroud of night.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.
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