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TC Tolbert – (tolbert)


TC Tolbert

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Yesterday the birds were shaped like paperweights
and we did little to protect them.

It is the endurance of skipping
stones that never leaves us.
We bend our tongues on street lamps.

If you were more like the chocolate grinder
I would lean nightfall into the corner of your ear.

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