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The craftiest words spill
Over and over.
No reason could ever be kept.

The loss of the line
She held on for weeks.
she mourns? No.

She digs, she pleads;
To earth—
Dive, spade!

Irony strikes cold:
fill the void!
And humour, stand proud!

Humility enters.

No one finds better comfort

Than she, who lives for the day
The bucket is filled.

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