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Apr 2022
I wear my daddy's sweater
   grind my teeth play a song
   for your attention, applause
   slit my wrist if I am wrong.
   I mistake you for my lover
   blond curse, my fragile heart
   you smell of many lovers but
   promise you're my new start.
Turbulent waters we wed
made our baby girl
shotgun barrel suicide
left my smoked curl.
William J Donovan
Written by
William J Donovan  76/M/New Bern, NC
(76/M/New Bern, NC)   
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