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I taste your laugh
Have I licked the corners of your mouth
It vibrates my lungs
Deep, deep breaths of you

I smell your skin
Have I stood close enough
I think you'd smell like fire
Burning down a house
I bet you lay in cold sheets
I bet you lay with ice people
It's easy when you're frozen
To reason morning melt-down
Naked to your calling
Straight jackets on the floor
No one's watching baby
Go ahead put it on.

                       ‘96