March 1, 2012

• 55 - Zero sum conquest

  Here, my devotion, you can have it.

  Instead of my usual currency,

  take my tribute to you, cruel conqueror, this pinup

  proof of color in my life.

  You've won this territory,

  pillaged me of my last words--gleaming and malleable,

  my gold,

  and granted me status

  of refugee.

  But you haven't obliterated me in this two person war,

  because we are not zero sum.

  As you swallow my heart and pocket your plunder,

  I gain revenge.

  The passion that has poisoned me will become your sickness.

  Of sentimentality,

  you will know.

   

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