i loved you after five tense minutes. i owned you after fourteen days. now you occupy my hearth. a conversation piece in a library of party jokes. like a flaming goblet of liquid queen. she bears the fangs and swings the swords. prod that flank and watch the red emerge. tango through the gaps in your fork. chew & appease the marble cheeks. behave and drink it down until the copper tastes like gold. your spite served cold the next morning. judgment cast but badly aimed. how the fuck did they survive? how the fuck did you survive?