February 2012
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Now
She was two years old
And played with firetrucks and steam engines
Sitting knee deep in Barbie doll-hair
Crayon wax mixed with the sweat on her fingertips
Now,
Bottle tops to bottle necks
Her body dressed for nakedness
Now, the colored layer of skin eight years dead
Nerves iced with tar, now
She remembers herself at twelve years old
Practicing with candy cigarettes smoked and eaten
Now, her bad...
January 2012
34 posts
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