I Died



I died,

doe eyed,

a half smoked cigarette,

fell to the floor,

and I,

still,

in your arms,

outside of the ice cream bar,

that was rebirthed,

as a Lebanese eatery

by the theatre,

I was dead.

 

 

You carried my corpse,

to your car,

careful with my curls,

and lonely, lived in heart,

as the ghosts

that followed me,

began to despair,

and disperse,

into the orange sky,

and I was dead.

 

 

I decorated your back seat,

dead,

decadent,

the cutest corpse,

in all of London,

as you placed your jump leads,

on my lips,

and shocked me,

back to life,

and I,

once dead,

was alive.
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Submitted on March 14, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic dimeter
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Words 107
Stanzas 24
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Jennifer Juan

Jennifer Juan is a British poet and musical artist, whose works include "Home Wrecker", "Last Of The Greenwich Glamour Girls" and "Stormy Weather". more…

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