How could I not burst before your bellows,
between the epilepsy of your lips?
Sustainable expressions
of this loneliness-wrecking
cannot actually exist
when it's easier to give up than to forgive
and my reputation is easier to live up to
than to outlive.
But I'm sorry I smiled when you got sick again,
I just love to see your body fight.
It brings me the sweet sting
of the things you put inside me
every day after every thousand-and-first night.
But I've been chewing calcium tablets
to strengthen my skeleton.
So, if I ever get so cowardly
I lock him in a closet,
he can knock it, door and frame, down again,
even when it's easier to give up than to forgive
and my reputation is easier to live up to
than to outlive.
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