"007" by Peter Kline from DMQ REVIEW

Today's poem is by Peter Kline

007

Have you ever mistaken your lover for a gun? Have you ever pictured your own eye as the bullseye? Have you felt yourself pulled deeper into deep water by luxury fingers? Have you straightened your tie on a parapet while arabesque nudes moved into flanking position? Have you prowled the inside of a mirror? Have you sweated out poison and bullion? Have you forced your way into a thicket of trigger wires, then hesitated? Has violence been your fantasy of safety? Have you kissed someone, only to find you killed them?

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