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The Ambivalence of Red

Loving him is indeed red,

One stray bullet 

straight to the head,

One life walking 

in hell's wire while

hanging by heaven's thread.

Loving him till brain dead,

when there's everlasting

existential dread

and last tear falling 

in the streaming riverbed.

Loving him makes me

a scapegoat--a thoroughbred!

His sinful side never swallows

what I've scavenger-fed.

Loving him is daily bread--

No more silver and lead.

Vermilion velvets of him are bled,

He vomits me 

in foreshadowing 

déjà vu instead.

In be and end all, we have fled;

In eventual backwardness, we will be ahead.