poetry critical

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Random Poem:

AIKYÔGEN
noodleman

You, too, felt the weakness in her glistening
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feral eyes, smelled her fear and longing, so
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shall we dance, you and I? Duel like two
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will-o’-the-wisps before dawn, slit-eyes
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crackling like kindling fresh-licked clean
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by fickle flames? Yes. I see you, as well,
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wear the mask of Shikami: teeth sharp,
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dull-gilt; skin ruddy, rough, and crows feet
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the color of dried blood; and so we are drawn
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together at the site of the same pungent kill.
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The decayed in me salutes the decayed
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in you, i, we are one, are two but she
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is mine, beautiful.
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