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        i miss you like a brick has hit me in the head
        i miss you like a dog that whines at an open screen door, too stupid to realize that she could run out and tackle you
        i miss you like a fistee misses double scorpio
        
        how electric you are, how tender and soft your body and spirit
        how you pass like church wine across the room
        how you let yourself be consumed by cruel teeth and vengeful fists
        and swallow the wrath so gracefully
        
        i carried you so tenderly
        spinning
        dancing, even
        giggling, 
        afraid to say what our eyes have already told each other
        how beautiful it is when our lives touch like this
        how beautiful your copper wire hair would look frayed across my chest
        
        if i was smarter and more capable, i would wind you tight and coat you in flux
        twist some amateurish braid between us and join us with solder, work some shrink tubing over
        but i couldn't commit to buying a heat gun