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raze i used to dig them out
of the dirt behind her
house, slender spears
that weren't much more
than weeds to their maker,
and hold them on my tongue
to taste their secrets.

(i won't repeat the
things they told me.)

you set down six slices
of a terrestrial bird's
breast meat, plastic
plumage still intact.

i take a bite and spit
out childhood, flecked
with fat and feral.
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