Stained Church Glass

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Roses with thorns,
and shiny red apples,
her ruby red slippers,
each hung in the chapels,
and the water to wine
with caramel pineapple?

Scorn the red on her lips,
gliding between her hips,
not the one that drips
from the Tower of Babel?

I guess red really isn't your color.

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