15. Life

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Life is a swallow

So I'll come up the throat

That tries to hide me beneath its tongue

And pretend that everything's fine

And everything's well,

Having already witnessed the horrors that lay in the small pit of my stomach.

Because I...I will not be eaten.

Life is a swallow,

But I can climb.

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