LXXVI. Orphan

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i sever your hair at the root
and we watch your loose curls
gather on the newspapers below our feet.
this is the second time
(somewhere in my head: perhaps not the last time)
and your eyes burn like mine did/will later today.
i pray those clouds under your skin
don't kill you and break you down
like they did your mother and father
so that i might keep you
and not be lost --

 i pray those clouds under your skin don't kill you and break you down like they did your mother and fatherso that i might keep youand not be lost --

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(17/09/2017)

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