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For Fear You Would Die Faster

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londonrey

Published: Feb 21, 2011

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your attenuate bones clik clak clak against each other against my ankles pooled in the foot of this sleeping bag they summon up eighty-eight goose-bumps taught to sing evanescence in the summer(.) we loved. now: see- through skin for your viewing pleasure reasoning with irresponsible tendons writhing cos we were we are one typewriter with two dry mouths, fifty-six detac hed teeth

_{"never more than one hundred hand breadths apart and never more"}

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safe in the dark, how can you see?"}

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Feb 21, 2011

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