I Would Like to Smell the Scent of Your Corpse

by Carla Verver

Carla Verver is originally from Guanajuato, México. She studied English and Philosophy at UIW and holds an MA in English. She has always enjoyed creative writing and editing; she was once an editor for Quirk. 

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I would like to smell the scent of your corpse. 

I would like that it will show me that you are truly dead.  

Gone.  

I want to hold your freezing hand.  

Someone whispers to me “he is gone” and I think, “gone to where?”  

I would like to cry so others will be satisfied and because I know you would hate it.  

Anyways, your wishes will not matter anymore. I want you to see me 

To see me and wish you could be  

To wish you could be angry, 

Disappointed.  

I would like to watch you until I feel like I've memorized your self, only to find out, years later, that I memorized nothing.  

I would like. 

I want.  

I want to forget you.  

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