White paper

Ripped from the typewriter
Crumbled up
tossed into the corner of the alley
over by the dumpster
The crumbled up boy
Lies there

Ripped from the typewriter
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I wrote a story
About a boy

I

.

was a boy

The crippled old man
Was----/////?
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And so we talk!
We talk so of the taboo-ed times

The taboo-ed stories we have woven out of pain

Stories written-----
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a low scream fills the places we have been

The crumbled up pieces of the story

Crumbled up
Behind the dumpster
There