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immortality
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alexithymic PM
you knew you'd die someday, when you told me you'd live forever anyway
Rated: Fiction T - English - Words: 67 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 01-23-13 - Status: Complete - id: 3094726
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...
And everyone
loves a tragedy,
a good death to
cry over. The
lovely salt tears
that taste so good
going down. The
dark, the black,
the shadows we
wear to calm
our societies.
[it's safe. it's
ordinary. it's
expected.]
The flowers we
lay out, just
pretending to
be proud.
When really
we're ashamed
since we can't
keep a single thing
from dying.
...

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