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answer please

what has my skin ever done to you?

has it sinned or lied or driven you mad?

it does to me, but to you?

 

what has my skin ever done to you?

besides existing in this world where the beholder is shot by firing squad and his eye spooned out for all to see, what?

 

we were wed in the summer some sixteen years ago, my skin and i,

those years of discontent.

i filed all the papers

but i think they got lost in the post.

 

still i sit here sewed into swatches of white

writing down this question:

what has my skin ever done to you?

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katie-mac
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May 29, 2013
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