there are many///
versions of me

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there are many///
versions of me

He picks on my words, this kid. It’s like trying to talk to a lawyer instead of

By David Demchuk CW: spiders, mild body horror Our village is prosperous now, but it was not always so. When I was a child, we …

Because they have no slack, no rest in them

The fish police cannot drown me

The ink in the quill, the fingertip caught

Merlin Flower is an independent artist and writer

You go into this club alone because your friends get into a better one

the dirt wet by my parents’ spewing / torn up muddy fields

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