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August 16, 2019 / barton smock

mass ache

to have
a past
I cut short
my listening
to the oral
history
of going
hungry
and let
touch
forget
its childhood
of gold
then watched
as my mother
pretended
to recognize
an animal
that would lose
an ear
but weigh
the same

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