xxvi. the broken child's broken kid

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my parents
were broken children
who didn't know
they were broken.
i am the broken child
who didn't know
who to blame.
this grief is a secret affair
between me
and my childhood.
the good kid
they all knew from yore
had died along
with the blue and sore.

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