27 days. that’s how long it takes for the human body to completely shed its skin. 27 days for a redesigned landscape, from the valley between your first and second toe to the creases that form on your forehead whenever you think about the last 648 hours. how unfamiliar soap now feels against your kneecaps. […]
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Sugar sits on your tongue like saliva, rolls off your tongue like words, drips from your lips like a lover’s kiss, pools in your well-travelled eyes like tears, cascades down your back like sweat on a summer’s day, wafts off your body like cologne. Makes its way up to my nasal cavities, smells like lust, […]
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Love cannot happen at first sight, Lust can. Although, not many know the difference Love is beautiful Lust is insidious It manipulates and burns It will be disguised as love Until a sacrifice is asked for. To find real love, You have to look through the deception As true love is your only salvation […]
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I have had a lot of people fall for my flawlessly contoured face, my tailored, arched brows, or my kohl-lined eyes. I have heard a bunch of them gush excitedly about how my skin resembles a smooth marbled surface and my nose looks all chiseled in all my selfies on Instagram. I can recollect all […]
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“And nobody tells you what happens after they say happily ever after,” she blurts out. “Nobody tells you what happens after endearment starts to fade and adoration turns to boredom. When love turns out to be lust and forever just turns out to be a phase for numbered days, and nobody tells you that happily […]
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out of the cement the plaster come unholy diamonds. these slate men pointing fingers at priestesses goddesses hookers in silver. water pools from the salivating mouths of a thousand saviors with coal-like hands given by these loincloths of silk and pearl above caverns corroded by greed and divine intentions. Farah Ghafoor […]
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Everything about you shone and I wanted it all. I wanted the blood and liquid ambition that pumps through your veins, I wanted the love in your arteries and all the greed hidden in your heart. I craved access to the portals of your very core, I wanted to crawl through your pupils and bump […]
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He was an array of loosely fitted mirror slices, cutting and cold and exact like art, or the remains art made you leave behind. Sometimes you remember dust swirling, flaking to the grimy classroom floor like rose-shaped snowflakes. He’s tracing a heart with the tip of his foot around and between your ankles, catching petals […]
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