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Innocence Skipped


The blonde playing hopscotch

had a tattoo

 

In a collision of eras,

her ponytail flew

 



As innocence skipped,

the ink started to run
 

A bastardized image

—of time overrun

 

(Villanova University Campus: October, 2019)

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