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A CELEBRATION OF LOSSES
To count them is pointless
celebrate? Why not?
they open me
like cutting open a piece of fruit
clear through
to the stone
bearing its heart to the elements
that it might grow
into a new
fruit-bearing tree
A CELEBRATION OF LOSSES
To count them is pointless
celebrate? Why not?
they open me
like cutting open a piece of fruit
clear through
to the stone
bearing its heart to the elements
that it might grow
into a new
fruit-bearing tree
A CELEBRATION OF LOSSES
To count them is pointless
celebrate? Why not?
they open me
like cutting open a piece of fruit
clear through
to the stone
bearing its heart to the elements
that it might grow
into a new
fruit-bearing tree
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