Ndakasi's last words

Conrad DiDiodato
Jun 2, 2022
1 min read

Updated: Aug 9, 2022

'Hold this clumsy oversize head of mine, (puzzled brow like yours!)

and a final caress to feel whole

as I lie safely in you. I'll let you snuff like me and pick fleas out of me

til I be barrel-chested, again--

do anything to crack those dark eyes of yours, and tough gangly arms

that eased me once into the vetch'

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