you don't have to die

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don't plunge the sushi knife

into your wrists

they don't bleed sriracha


your life is worth a thousand

plates of masa toro and caviar


your first wasabi pea breath

sauteed the entire world's exhale

please don't burn my tongue just yet


i've been praying for a samurai

to save you because my sword

is chipping


what's a bite of ma po tofu

without the sting of sichuan

first?

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