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Foolish Staying Power

I stood in the sun

and thought of you

and of my junebug heart.

It clings on, unshakable,

even after it’s death.

And you like that about me,

my junebug heart that is.

You think you have one too.

I know that you don’t.

Yours is fleeting.

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Published: Sep 4, 2010
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