give me
the gift
of sorrow
the strongman’s
pencil

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in the purgatory
of spaced out
animals, ****
on the short
straw

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tell me I’m not surrounded

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show to my brother
youtube videos
of our mother
sleeping
on her father’s
back

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say something in my sister’s mouth

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scrub me
from the shoemaker’s dream
with a rock
the rock
I deserve