Cassnadra Nuddkebrook

If I should reach out and touch you,

Please do not think that I love you
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Into this earth we have built ourselves,
You and I.
Like so many caves that dot the mountainsides,
Dark and deep, cool and damp.
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I loved her.
Not because she was beautiful,
Even though she was.
The curve of her body did not hypnotize me,
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To the old couple inside the restaurant, sitting next to the window with us right outside:

Keep glaring...if you happen to get a flat tire or need help a ways down the road, we'll still stop and help.
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Let the silence come.
Let it come and wrap around me like a blanket.
Let my head by clear,
my ears be numb,
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I was born from cold bones,
baby girl full of dreams for him,
at the bottom of a bottle.
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