Rearward

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Incongruous rage eludes me, “lover boy”

it snared you like quicksand, I quavered

you’re quelled and qua

biding behind my alacritous antichrist

our antagonistic future, implausible now

on the glaring surface, you radiate with

peerless perfection, testimony speaks for

superfluity of flamboyant self-destruction

and yet, your blameless cHeRuBiC fAcE

is sensed by my sixth serenity

how can I hate your Hellenic skin?

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Fault lines of unrequited fury, an animus

the wrath within you awoke something

dark in me

yet, my enmity is unnatural and aberrant

it’s borrowed, contrived, an ire imitation

only now do I recognize myself as you

mimicking such crimson chaos from afar

at best... what’s worse?

watching, waiting, scant seen nor believed

yet I want you, I want your nocturnality

knowing erst unrest and Faustian largesse

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Desideratum knowledge bows to ¿ hearts ¿

and yours, my Goethe, is ice

vices claw-mark your supererogatory soul

and as sickness seeps unto some pool of

heartbroken, crestfallen, vitiated

men wading through your wicked water

I veil my Valentine eyes

the seduction, the surrealism, the synergy

sight was a false prophecy, I know it now

YESSSS I feel it now, consequence is king

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Sequences of my Mephistophelian acts (!)

play by beneath play-by-play paradise yoke

no longer a lone voyeur

you notice my enkindling as our flame

incinerates inflections of innocence, we

bind, licentious linkage, love?

kingdoms of blind rivals kneel before us

you yearned for this, I learned for twine

so be mine

seraphic-shaped puppets never tell-turn

around as we P-U-L-L

their

⠀⠀⠀pretty

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀little

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ strings.

(c) Edward Swafford 2026

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