Sitting taller

By Colvet

He claims I sit taller
after drudging
on his tropical punch blunt
as black carbon craters dissolve
on the creases of my eyelids
enveloping everything
in a parabolic shutter field
embolized in floral dreams
lowering my shoulders
fully sunken into my seat

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