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Feb 2020
My chest bleeds
And it all goes black

If you knew the seeds
You’d know it all goes back

To that moment I opened
My eyes to this cruel world

And then I listened
As their hatred unfurled

My body bleeds as a result
Of my first breath

An egregious insult
To the jaws of death.
Keith Strand
Written by
Keith Strand  21/Non-binary/The Viridian Wilds
(21/Non-binary/The Viridian Wilds)   
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     Sirae, --- and Bogdan Dragos
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