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weathered handsshe held me close and cooed and preened me / and held me safe from the night / from the large and troubling world
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vulnerabilityI don't like this skin of vulnerability, / to show my softened underbelly / and to take off the masks of all my lies.
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moments lost in timeand were the ears so pleased when: / the iciclic needles dug into our skins, / fleshy cloths that, sewn together,
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Athena, GracelessI cower in your shadow, / shivering despite any acuity of my own. / (your words are like loaded icicles,
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I had wanted promiscuity**"I love you."** / My fingers froze: / dark eyes on a list
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adrifting through the black unknown (I.)Spheres floating in the chilly dark, / white and fluffy, / vain and uncorrupted.
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sitting at a table with a party full of thoughtsSitting all alone / at a table meant for six / I think of molecules
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BurningA sneer, / A snide / remark
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though the conscious world is still so farrocking and rolling / across the rocky shores / of my conscious mind,
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I'm going to **** myself tonightthere are cars in the street / and music fills the night; / Les Trois Gymnopedies
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