Love Poem: Habit
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Written by: Vernon Witmer

Habit

Hourglass of spider’s ink
upon your lower back.
Your love, a kind of love 
that’s kind of an attack.

Smoking skin pressed onto my own
in messy overtones of kisses.
Stole my love before I could escape.
Less like love, more like rape.

Introduced me to those words 
I never used before
Drugs	       paraphernalia
kit   	cut 	whore    
slut   score     more		

words I never used before

Sometimes I get chills.
You say, “probably coming down with something.”
I say, “Yeah,”			

“you.”