Sta.sh
can you hold it against—
a sycophantic apparition in the daylight
you've got patent leather heels toeing through the ash
he's a blight in the night with sky stained black
ink and glass slashed in the middle of a map
in the pouring rain
waiting for the call
where there's blood there is love in a
casket or a house that was a museum before
and a store or a bed and breakfast
in the guise of a business arrangement
instead of splendid cavalier
he's your romeo and you're his new perspective
wrapped in contract wax and gauzy continuity
he
says
things
that
people shouldn't
[ murmur how to pick a lock, steal a car
that her nails don't quite match her lipstick and ]
you cannot ignore
[ to make improvised incendiary weapons
out of matchsticks and petrol soaked rags ]
although you are made up of ash dust,
vermillion papercuts, coy whispers of lewdness
his inspired compliments
breathing enough to say he's not unpretty
licking blood off your fingers
and respire in time to say
i do
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Oh, and vermilion, not "vermillion". But otherwise it's good.
Both spellings are actually correct, although you are right in that 'vermilion' was the original spelling and is in more common use, while 'vermillion' is seldom used except in application to the pure chroma color.