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Blood Roses Looming

living memory
blood roses blooming
in all the children

a future a suicide
they might like to try
tonight

angels in heaven
and all the dead men
who polluted them

blood roses blooming
a child’s memory
again

 

“The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author” - Roland Barthes

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