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They carry the body out at 5.37 p.m on a Sunday. Cloaked under shadows of cloth, in the blackness of Death. We lay dead-empty as we watched. They hovered with bleached masks and lay hands, cold, On the still colder flesh, They pressed flesh on flesh, Imagined life in hallowed cheeks, They tried to bring more out of 63 kg of Flesh and bone, spoke to break the seal of death   With remembrance The body rotted below the cloth The body grew stiffer, colder And nothing more
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Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017 at 2:27 AM UTC
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They carry the body out at 5.37 p.m on a Sunday. Cloaked under shadows of cloth, in the blackness of Death. We lay dead-empty as we watched. They hovered with bleached masks and lay hands, cold, On the still colder flesh, They pressed flesh on flesh, Imagined life in hallowed cheeks, They tried to bring more out of 63 kg of Flesh and bone, spoke to break the seal of death   With remembrance The body rotted below the cloth The body grew stiffer, colder And nothing more
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Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017 at 2:27 AM UTC
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