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Bad Apple

You speak in candy:

A shell, on the words

All thick, and sickly

Do you promise?

Everything good

 

But it’s all wet, perverted,

The muscle, twisted 

Trails over the gloss

Leeching off the sweetness

And the sugar

 

I can\'t swallow you whole

When you linger on the tongue

And ball your fists

Against the incisors

 

It’s all wet, perverted

But it’s rational

It’s too thick, and too sickly

I taste what you leave

Did you promise?

The ache

 

So I’ll sink in the casing, 

Crack the sugar

Bitter, you’re sour

At the core