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The word

rolls around in my brain

I poke it,

prod it,

turn it over with a long stick.

I know what it is

I match the description

but is it me?

It feels so foreign

upon my tongue

it looks so alien

like an overturned insect.

Shiny, cold, gleaming,

a good word

but a word too good for me.

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