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Gaps

By winking_tiger

Wed, 15 Sep 2004
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This inbred urban family
Spreads its late night feelings
Too easily
Scatters seeds
Of lust
On fields
Of open longing
And waters them
With desperate tears

What grows between the

Gaps

In wooden pub tables
Can only be silence
And Regret.

Certificate PG
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