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Hands

By ern_mali

Sun, 12 Sep 2004
  • 499 reads
 

We depend on them like masters
depend on servants.
We pay them little
respect.
Yet they are our
probes, our ciphers,
our tests.
These hands long
for your lips,
your breasts.

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