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‘what we love will kill us’

(from ‘dead bird’)

  

i have trouble sitting inside myself.

 

you think i am quiet

gazing out the window

but i am pacing the perch.

 

i know the blue sky

will eat me whole.

 

i just wonder 

will it will break my neck first.

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