Breakfast for Dinner

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Neon light pulls her apart

Until the skin is stretched taught

The screams in her throat melted like sweet taffy

Into a hurricane of speeding photons


She thought it would be the darkness

She thought it would be monsters

But monsters are brighter in the face

Of a cosmic electric discharge

That splits the stratosphere in two

Than the ones who hide, cower in shadows

Have never tasted the brilliance of sunlit liberty


And may have never been

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