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I don't want you to love me. I want
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                   you to swim to me knowing it's doom                         .             ,
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                   I want you to choose for yourself, knowing what                                  .
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                   there is no bottom                                     ,         ,
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                      You look like a statue but your tail is barely
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                   trembles. It is long and ink-black and shimmers
                   with patterns as if the night itself had woven them
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                   for you        ,
                   clothes And if someone approaches                                   you don't
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                   You will attack You will let me come closer And
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                   then             .                                           .
                   you will drag Not with your hands Not with your
                   tail With words                       .                      .              .
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                   With a movement of the shoulders With silence

                      You are not a siren in a fairy tale You                             her
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                   continuation The one that is not
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                   Because everyone who
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                   met you have not returned And not                       ,
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                   because they drowned But because they stayed                                      .
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                        If gold were alive                                   it would take
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                   precisely this form
                   I sat in the sink like a pearl
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                   ripened not in the body of a mollusk but in
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                   the carnal fantasy of the sea gods. My
                   tail         fire Bright orange scales                          .
                   glitter like drops of molten
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                   amber They seem to breathe Waves like                          ,
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                   the breath of a lover
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                      My skin glows with golden powder
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                   My blond hair curls freely like                                    ,
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