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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{wild flowers}
  john dorsey


as a kid i
remember suicide
grew up by the side
of our house like
wild flowers amongst other
things she claimed to
be the imaginary best
friend of god though
she said heaven was
just his way of
over compensating for having
a small dick

how could i argue
with that?

she said there was
a fine art to
creation never fuck your
muse too hard you
can look but don't touch

she was smitten with
my heart's shadow i
didn't know what to
tell her my heart
had a vasectomy at a
very young age it
saw the kinda shit
that you just don't
want to give a
name to

our love was the
stuff of original sin
not some starving artist
song and dance number

though it was pop
somehow it wasn't meant
to be reproduced i
had a feeling that
someday in the right market
it would be worth
dying for