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Cherry

By Ewan

Sat, 24 Jan 2026
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finders keepers
 light fingered
  stealing by finding
   under the coverlet
    behind the mirror
     safe cracked 
      from side to sighed
       grief at a loss
         of a treasured memory
          stick full of the past
           the last time you saw them

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