Little Rosebud!

Little rosebud! –
oh, you furled-up
prurience in need
of reassurance! –
(part malevolence –
benevolence) –

be solaced.

The indifference of
this bitter winter
day erases
everything – so you
can coax the thing
that matters out

until it sways and boogies.

As for all the last
reiterated bits
of over-masticated
residue of
everybody
else’s past,

tough noogies.


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