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I have to protest

I’ve said it before

there are ships in my bones

but you know what

these bones are the ships

that sail against the map

against the idea of arrival

I have to protest against

the cruel arithmetic of this world

I have to stay alive inside

the sentence that wants to end us

 

the blood would change the address

this body has become an exile of song

when I be cold

I’ll sit near you without words

I think the heat moves on its own, maybe

the tide knows how to pull us together

cause a sea remembers our ribs

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Written by
irinia
Romanian
Published
May 19
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17·100
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