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September 24, 2015
By megthepoet ELITE, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Favorite Quote:
"We know what we are, but not what we may be" - Shakespeare

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of the story
is you.
here the body of
distance floats
down
the stream of consciousness
soaked in toxic screams
and crystallized teardrops.
stapled against silence.
the protagonist of the story
is a shadow now
a history of words disinfecting wounds
they tug at the stitches
and i
bleed out.

© April P., Marblehead, MA

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