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Debuting Saints + Angels

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Published: Aug 3, 2011

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The lightning
doesn't seem real
anymore—

it signifies you
& all I see
is your electrified face
in the sky
like a saint.

You've said
you fought like an angel—

what magnificent victims
you've made of us,
soldered together
by a strike

& god's fury.

We cannot escape each other
in this diamond storm
with a midday moon—
they'll find us

with no trace of human features,

just two midnight-black
artifacts of Pompeii
with stolen wings.

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_{Debuting Saints & Angels
or
Exploitation.

k-k-killer says--
"I lost all my earthly faculties
& fought like an angel."

i like stealing his words
& making them my own.}