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Feb 2018
the word reciprocation
died of an unnatural death
it so required an in kind
responsive breath*

too few understood
the dire straitsΒ it was in
not ever being returned
mutual oxygen's kin

as a consequence of the term
never receiving air
there ended the life
of its courteous fair

the coroner's dictionary
apportioned blame
at the feet of they who
*knew not the name
Elizabeth Squires
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Elizabeth Squires
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