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Pietro

after Michelangelo's blackmailer

By Joe NastaPublished 5 years ago • 1 min read
Runner-Up in From Across the Room Challenge
Pietro
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If we die, it will be laughing

hard enough to suffocate

or fall off chairs, crack

open our skulls --

I want to lose everything

steeped in your joy.

No, I want to contain

each extreme simul

taneous, then feel

nothing. Tell me obscene

jokes & desires. Whatever

you want me I already

am, soaked in milk or

cerebral fluid. Maybe

for a moment we can live

& then finally be empty.

**This poem was a part of my Love Poems project, which I wrote about in my Field Notes Series and you can read on Medium. I will be posting more of the Love Poems here on Vocal as well.**

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About the Creator

Joe Nasta

literary editor at large, American Poetry’s Sweetest Troublemaker, reputed champion of the underground, kind friend please make me happy :)

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