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Who is the ghost this time Oct. 22, 2013

 


 I have to wonder

 what kind of man he is

 that she would surrender to him

after so many men have

done the same for her,

sex to die for,

magnificently churched up into love,

 the lips, his lips,

 she continues to kiss

deep into her dreams,

her bed made warm

 by the sheer memory of him,

his fingers on her,

 his chest pressed up against hers,

 his deep breathing softly

 singing her to sleep,

feeling him against her,

so steady she could set

the world’s clocks by him,

and yet, there only when

 she dreams of him,

 and remembers his scent

 and his feel,

remembers how safe she felt

 with him there,

and how vacant

she is now that he isn’t,

a haunting presence she can’t exorcise,

won’t,

needing it, him,

 like she needs life itself,

 desperate to know

 if he is the ghost or is she?

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