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Tarpaulin

Cherry

By chicken_wishbone

Sun, 12 Sep 2004
  • 622 reads
 

My Dad hangs
Me on the wall
Like a tarpaulin
He complains there
Aren't enough tent pegs

An oily patch lingers in my
Top left hand corner
But we don't
Talk about that

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Tarpaulin
Autobiography
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