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Emily Bludworth de Barrios

Burning Thoughts

If there were a medicine that would help I would take it every night
Inside the word medicine I see the Medici
A rich person can last forever
The oil paintings they commissioned
A rich person put his arm inside a craftsman’s head and took the thoughts from there
Therefore in glossy oil Judith carries the head of Holofernes by a hank of tangled hair
Carries the head of Holofernes tucked in a basket on her head
A rich person puts his arm inside a nation
Extracting some of the best pieces
PROSPECT NY sells an $80 candle: 7.5 inches tall Designed by artist Bonam Kim
The candle is paper-white     A naked headless torso of a man     Marble-white
A torso from neck to upper thighs like David’s carved precise perfection
From his headless neck extends the little yellow flame
Extract a man’s burning thoughts
The rich person plucks a poem or a painting or an object so perfect it feels like drugs or love
My burning thoughts
Teach me how to sell myself
I will

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