The Resurrection of Amadeus Lepidoptera

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He who swallows everything and
cuts everything
with his his lips,
is a soft, soft creature with
a deep, sad mouth and
a rotting mind.
He shaves every October
and uses old paint chips to color his hair.

His eyes are a rainy day, the color of dead marrow,
the ashes of the love letters he wrote.
He stabbed his last wife with the fingers he used
to touch her broken heart
because she couldn't say yes.

He dug himself out of the grave next to her,
kissed the wet soil, the dead flowers,
and left.