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Oct 2013
a shattered ankle
bones soaring through my leg
but I can still walk
and I try and crawl forward
I try and climb the stairs
I try and go to school

but my leg keeps telling me
that I can't
it keeps holding me back
and it keeps holding me down
just like so much of the rest of me
Christine Eglantine
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Christine Eglantine  Pittsburgh
(Pittsburgh)   
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