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A 3 a.m. study of the self
holding eyebags / spilling over / like loose beans / the beggars inside of me beg for bed
tracing brows / penning feigned innocence / with rain-rough asphalt / east-to-west
filling creases with butter / sculpting roundness in cacao / dust settles / in stacks
forcing hot / aqueous cinnamon behind my tongue / scalding flesh / to swallow a sneeze
numbing cold / gnawing my extremities / blue was yesterday / slate reigns today
caulking sheets / to brick building bones / peeling terracotta / takes my skin with it, too
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