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I see you beneath the robust rubies that draw drooling blood to keep alight, in your skin, I see you, peering through lace lashes across your face of silk damask, on the inside the colours reversed and I see it, that, every stitch (every missing thread), I see you.
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Sep 16, 2013
Sep 16, 2013 at 1:00 PM UTC
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I see you beneath the robust rubies that draw drooling blood to keep alight, in your skin, I see you, peering through lace lashes across your face of silk damask, on the inside the colours reversed and I see it, that, every stitch (every missing thread), I see you.
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Sep 16, 2013
Sep 16, 2013 at 1:00 PM UTC
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