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I’m sipping the cups of time drifting away
on the grass of exile
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of …
on the grass of exile
Picking up the deliberate fallout
of …
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It’s honest spite scraped across damp coquina
that makes me a spade, my lust heavy and fragrant
as iron…
that makes me a spade, my lust heavy and fragrant
as iron…
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