something to hold

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when you were in the hospital,
they gave me your purse.
i did a bad thing,
reaching my hand into the pockets to find
hidden lockets
i kept them with me,
my sister to blame.
it made me feel numb,
distant to anyone's touch.
a pain disorted into
swollen,
broken tongues.

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