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Police Tape
- B. Spencer
- Oct 23, 2014
- 1 min read
POLICE TAPE DO NOT CROSS
worn like a chastity belt every time
a hand dips too low across the hollow
of your hipbones and he still says
loving you is easy.
they say your body is a temple
and still try to conquer it,
like all the virgin priestesses
who killed themselves when a man
dared to enter the halls
already soaked with too much blood.
they say your body is a temple
and they want to drink every
drop of sacramental wine.
their hands are red and they
smell like frankincense and
all the evergreens that grow
in Israel so you forgive them
for not knowing your boundaries.
you draw new ones in chalk
that disappear at the trace of a
fingertip.
they say your body is a temple
and the only thing you have to
offer the gods of your alter
is bruises on your knees.
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