Sting

Send me a scorpion pie by speeding Russian train
Through razors of icy hollyhocks, dark zig-zaggy tunnels
Wrapped in newspaper clippings from the future.

Slip me a kiss inside the hangman's knot.

This is all we ask of love.

Rebecca Lu Kiernan

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