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Voices soft as the feathers of dead birds

By joe_quinn

Tue, 28 Sep 2004
  • 575 reads
 

she says:
"I love you
but
I'm not IN love
with you"

he says:
"but I
AM
in love
with you"

under his breath:
"I'm in pain"

underneath the screams
of machines in disrepair:
"I'm in hell"

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