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Mar 2014
Palimpsest
is a word that means
reused or altered
but still bearing visible traces
of its earlier form.

I think that that is
a good metaphor
for me
after you left me.

Feminists will disagree
(you haven't been used;
people can't be used up.
You're not a quota).
But I was after you left me

Because
you changed me
so completely
that even my music taste
tastes of you

Despite me now
being used
differently (better)
by someone else.
Natalie Clark
Written by
Natalie Clark  St Andrews
(St Andrews)   
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