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You are the weakest ink. Goodbye.

By 1legspider

Sun, 12 Sep 2004
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No sooner you leave my pen,
Then you are old ink left out to dry..
Your wetness gone, I bid you goodbye.
You do not seduce me anymore.
I long for that, that I can mould and ply,
Not that frozen for evermore.

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