I am to have this gold

when you die. To buy ink

for poems crumpled on the carpet

purchased with your cancer.

You’ll make nothing as a writer. But my materials are cheap.

Each verse I write about you

merely cost one life. They’re signed in blood.

A deal we made together years ago.

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