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It is not the flesh I want
but what glows behind it.
For you are not the face
softened with evening. Not
the eyes I’ve searched,
in vain, for my own.

Because you are never what binds you—
not muscle or organ, not even
the voice: that rupture of air
I dare to deem melodic.

Who can trust the body
when making love?
How it never fails
to fail so accurately. The way
it promises to wither
despite joy.

As I lie on top, my tongue
resting on your chest—
the steady metronome
blooming beneath it, I can’t help the urge
to pry you open, plunge through
the artifice of beauty.

And if I were to tear apart
the heart, lower my face
into that warmth, would I see you
among that glistening ruin?
Would there be
a small sphere of light
to swallow?

Ocean Vuong, “Self-Portrait as Jeffrey Dahmer” (via nouvelliste)
10 months ago July 23, 2011 147 notes #lit #poetry #ocean vuong
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