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Will Burke


Will Burke

.eat.



lacking large gray turnips.
is no fault.  of.  consider.

others.  I.  simply didn’t.
resist.  in time.
the native hue.
the glot worm.

who come.
to stuck.

with its.
knowhow.

until soil.
no mort.

histerics.  won’t.
help me.

causing red sweater.
under thing flesh.

to unbound.
the air herself.

fraught.
did any one say.

exactly even how.
cozy mannequins.

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