Muse Seduction

A work in progress
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I'll be your
muse, broken world
I know I'm not
brilliant or
particularly lovely
and certainly my list
of marketable skills is shorter
than my attention span
but I know
quite self-consciously
(because I live it)
exactly how the snow
crunches in the week before Christmas
and I know
that my hair blazes like golden flames at sundown
and
I know what raindrops taste like
when you nibble them off apple blossoms
and I know
how to make you
breathe faster heavier
just by finding that hollow at your neck, I
know my skin glows pale in the moonlight, with
my arms flung above my head,
and I can skip better than I can run, and
I swear I can make pasta and pie crust from scratch, but I know
you think it's sweet that I'm so proud of it.