Snakebite

If I knew your bones

Would be burnt

Turn to ash;

Incinerate

Maybe I would have

Knelt into the same syringe

Let it sting

As liquor & death & loss do

Maybe I could have

Drank the sweet maple of your

Poison opium

Taken it straight from your veins

As though you had merely been

Bitten by a snake…

As though I could save you.

For Jilly Allen peanut-buttah-jelly time!

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