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The Eclectic Pen - ALL-CONSUMING

By: Barbara P. (gotchagal) - ,   + 19 more  
Date Submitted: 4/9/2010
Last Updated: 4/9/2010
Genre: Literature & Fiction » Poetry
Words: 158
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Once I feasted freely on you; Sucked honey from your mouth, ate up the adoration in your eyes, devoured your every word... I swallowed your essence, and nourished myself by transfusion. In greedy hunger, I licked the salt from your body and tasted what love was like I grew fat on my contentment. You are gone now... Voracious cells, grown mad, have consumed you - totally, chewing through places even I could not reach. Tonight, in my loneliness, I nibble on carrot sticks & celery stalks and later run skeletal fingers over jutting ribs and bony pelvis in the dark. My life has been reduced to this. Barbara Gregory (Pearlman)

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