Murder’s Artist

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Sweetly decomposing lemons

Fruit flies doing a slow, drugged tango

An artful spray of dry

Red

Adorning blue-stained tiles

Arms arranged in

A silent, loving caress

Colder than the dark bathroom marble

Itself

Blood

Seeping out, soft

Accompaniment to gallant orchestral strains

– Mingle citrus tang and copper scent

And clasp her neck with their heavy wreath

Yellow, red, blue…black.

Soak in the fragrance…

Take a picture, and smile!

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(Oh Delilah,

You were never so beautiful in life.)

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